Posts Tagged ‘Ameriprise’

Penalty Applied for Laptop Theft: More Significant Penalties Are Needed to Motivate Better Safeguards

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

The Boston Globe reported Tuesday that “Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. will pay $25,000 to settle a probe of how one of its laptop computers went missing with the personal data of thousands of Massachusetts residents.”
An Ameriprise Financial Services laptop was stolen in 2005 that contained clear text personally identifiable information (PII) about over 200,000 individuals.

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