Pfizer, Inc. Data Breach (2007)

The drugmaker is quickly coming to resemble The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Two months ago, Pfizer suffered an enormous embarassment after revealing that personal data, including social security numbers, belonging to 17,000 former and current employees was compromised after unauthorized file sharing software was used by an employee’s spouse on a laptop. Now, Pfizer is ‘fessing up to another incident. This time, two Pfizer laptops were stolen from a locked car, The Day reports. The laptops, which disappeared May 31 in Boston, included the names, addresses, social security numbers and cell phone numbers of health-care professionals who “were providing or considering providing contract services for Pfizer,” according to a letter sent to Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal. And 950 people are affected.