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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Alcatel-Lucent said Friday it is reviewing security procedures and has halted use of couriers for sending personnel information after a computer disk with financial and other data on employees and retirees went missing.
The Paris-based telecommunications equipment maker said it is trying to recover the disk by working with the courier used to ship it and two outside vendors involved in the shipment. The company also notified the New Jersey State Police and the U.S. Secret Service.
The disk was either lost or stolen sometime between April 5 and May 3. It holds names, addresses, Social Security numbers, birth dates and salary data for thousands of employees, retirees and dependents on the company's U.S. payroll, said Peter Benedict, a spokesman at the company's North American headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J. Credit card numbers and bank account information were not on the disk.
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