Employees at Charter told data was stolen

The cable provider company, Charter Communications, is telling 9,000 current and former employees that their personal information was involved in a security breach that occurred when a number of laptops were stolen last month.

• Story link from Worcester, Mass. on-line newspaper, telegram.com, posted on Aug. 13, 2008 – http://www.telegram.com/article/20080813/NEWS/808130324/1002

Cable television operator Charter Communications Inc. is alerting employees, including some in Massachusetts, that their personal information was involved in a security breach that occurred when a number of laptop computers were stolen last month from a Charter media facility in Greenville, S.C.

The personal information consisted of names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers. Mr. Richmond declined to say how the laptops were used, why they contained the information and whether the records were encrypted.

In the process of identifying the information contained on the laptops, we discovered the personal information of about 9,000 current and former employees.