A benefit rep told me that Perrin had our data to tell them how much money they can save by cutting our pensions.

They should return some of their fees to pay for credit protection for life!

As soon as I received the letter, I immediately enrolled to the free equifax gold 3-in-1 monotoring of my credit files, and i called all my banks & credit cards companies to check if there are unusual activity on my accounts, and I requested them to put an extra password security on my accounts…

This is a big inconvenience on my part plus the emotional worry that comes with it. Our company should get rid of towers perrin and managed our own benefits instead…

This grows bigger by the minute. Many employees are upset that our company didn’t bother to notify us.

This affects thousands of people and yet it’s pushed under the rug. Local media here has not covered it although all it takes is a quick internet search to bring up dozens of articles.

Towers Perrin needs to be held responsible, as do any other companies that stock pile personal data where it can be easily stolen.

Stories such as these pop up more and more today. Not so much because they are happening with any less frequency but because such notifications are becoming mandatory as people have their bank accounts cleaned out, their id’s stolen, their credit cards hijacked, and when it is investigated how this could be, almost invariably it leads back to hijacked data or scammers of some sort.

Both corporations and governments are big targets for hacking. They are also well known for not having tight security guarding that data. One of the most favorite ways to get into data banks is with a supervisor password. Often you can get those passwords, not by hacking and cracking but by guessing at the most known and most often used. Passwords such as god, 1234, me, or other such similar instances do not need cracking and password skills, it only needs a good guess or a program running that will run through the list and put in those common passwords. So much for your data security.

Homeland Security has for several years now racked up the very worse of annual grade reports for computer and data security. At the same time, the average citizen can’t access the data and find out what they might think, where errors are, or even send in corrections or dispute them. Still your potential employer can find out all about you from the same source, errors or no.

Corporations hoard the data, hoping to find buyers for the data or to use that data in some way for their own benefit.

You pay with a credit card, Joe Merchant has a record of it and what do you want to bet that it isn’t near as good of security as even the poorly guarded government databanks.

There’s a scam going on now in Canada that you can bet will spread worldwide within the next month. The scammers already know the main number of your card. All they need is the pin number or the last 3 numbers to use the card. Now where did they get all that info? No one says but it didn’t drop into their hands from out of thin air. So why don’t you know whose keeping your data and why?

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