Remember the old tale "The Grain of Corn"?
'So the cat began to catch the mouse, The mouse began to gnaw the rope, The rope began to bind the ox . . .
Here is a real live version of that one:
Pfizer Inc. has reported three data breaches in three months, with tens of thousands of Pfizer employees getting their personal information and social security numbers stolen. This caused CT state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to call for a criminal investigation of Pfizer.
And now Pfizer has contacted federal authorities asking that they will prosecute a former employee responsible for one of the three data breaches, that affected 34,000 people, according to information released Monday by the Connecticut attorney general's office.
Bernard Nash, a Pfizer attorney, said the company last month contacted “a management-level federal prosecutor” and now hopes the former employee will be prosecuted “to the fullest extent of the law.”
And here's the really interesting twist: Nash also stated that Pfizer learned of the data breach after the employee had left Pfizer, when the former employee's new employer sent Pfizer a DVD containing the missing data that had been discovered on his new computer.
Makes you wonder how that came about . . . there seems to be a bigger story here.
“Pfizer has retained an independent forensic expert to examine the computer assigned to the individual at (the suspect's) subsequent place of employment,” Nash said. “Pfizer has also secured a forensic image of the laptop computer assigned to the individual during his time at Pfizer, and this computer is also being examined.”
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