Benefits vendor’s flub leads to data breach at Google
Google employee data was compromised by a third-party benefits provider mistakenly sending an email to an unintended source.
By Nick Thornton |
Updated on May 10, 2016
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This week, Google started notifying affected employees of a data breach that occurred when a third-party benefits vendor mistakenly sent an email file with employee information to an unintended source.
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Nick Thornton is a financial writer covering retirement and health care issues for BenefitsPRO and ALM Media. He greatly enjoys learning from the vast minds in the legal, academic, advisory and money management communities when covering the retirement space. He's also written on international marketing trends, financial institution risk management, defense and energy issues, the restaurant industry in New York City, surfing, cigars, rum, travel, and fishing. When not writing, he's pushing into some land or water.
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