FTC and HHS Deliver One-Two Punch This Week – A Sign of Things to Come?
2/23/2010
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced yesterday that it notified almost 100 organizations that personal information, including sensitive data about customers and/or employees, has leaked from the organizations’ computer networks and is available on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks to any users of those networks.
Notices went to both private and public entities, ranging in size from as few as eight people to those with tens of thousands of employees. The letters state that “at least one computer file containing sensitive personal information . . . has been shared from your computer network, or the network of one of your service providers, to a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) network.”
