AIG Screws Their Customers

Another big company gets sloppy with their data. This time, the company apparantly failed to lock its doors, check for security badges, monitor CCTV cameras, or do much else that normal companies do to security their valuable assets.

“AAAAIIIIIGGGG!!!” is what customers will be screaming when they get their letters telling them they are screwed.

From the NY Times Here:

The American International Group, one of the world’s largest insurers, said Wednesday that a burglar stole computer equipment in March from one of its Midwest offices that contained personal information on 930,000 people.

The burglar also took a laptop computer, a camera and other computer equipment, Winans said, adding that the insurance company thought the burglar’s objective was to take the equipment and may not have known about the personal data.

“We didn’t want to send out a press release and run the risk of alerting the thief that he had something valuable,” Winans said.

AIG did not want to give the location of its burglarized office because that information could also be useful to the burglar, he said. The crime occurred March 31 after normal working hours, he said.

Someone should get fired over this.