Coca Cola Faces Lawsuit Over Unencrypted Laptop Data Theft
Coca-Cola is facing a potential class-action lawsuit after one of the people whose personal data was on one of a clutch of laptops stolen from the company says he suffered identity theft as a result of the breach.
Made public on 24 January this year, an employee had allegedly taken the machines without their loss being realized, said a report in TechWorld. The machines contained the records of 74,000 people, all current or former employees, including 18,000 revealing social security numbers.