An employee of Boeing accidentally became a source of leakage of personal information of 36 thousand. work colleagues, mistakenly sending the corporate documents by e-mail to his wife. The incident occurred at the end of last year, but information about it appeared only in February.

Washington is a list of 47 states where the law requires organizations and government agencies to report on the possibility of leakage of personally identifiable information. Under current Washington law, companies are required to notify the Attorney General of incidents involving more than 500 state residents. In the case of Boeing leaked 7288 Washington residents, so the Assistant Director for the protection of data privacy Marie Olson (Marie Olson) reported the diversion of state Attorney General Bob Ferguson (Bob Ferguson). The letter was published on the official website of Ferguson.

According to the letter, the incident took place November 21, 2016.

One of the Boeing employees mistakenly sent its not working in the company's confidential data spouse colleagues. Posted file contained names, place of birth data, BEMSID (identification number assigned to each employee of Boeing) 36 thousand. people, as well as the accounting department codes. The "Hidden Columns» Excel-document also contained Social Security numbers and dates of birth, said Olson.

On assurance of the employee, he and his wife are not forwarded to anyone else and do not use corporate data, and accidentally sent email has been destroyed.