Boeing bod blabbed spreadsheet of 36,000 coworkers' personal details in email
Global aerospace firm Boeing earlier this month sent a notification to Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, as required by law, about a company employee who mistakenly emailed a spreadsheet full of employee personal data to his spouse in November, 2016.
The spreadsheet, sent to provide the employee's spouse with a formatting template, contained the personal information of roughly 36,000 other Boeing employees, including Social Security numbers and dates of birth, in hidden columns. Some 7,288 of the affected employees resided in Washington State.
Had the company been using the data loss protection (DLP) software it makes, Boeing might not now be in the position of offering two-year subscriptions to Experian's identity theft protection service to tens of thousands of employees.
