Computer equipment containing the private financial data of every employee of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was stolen in February, prompting the utility to pay for a credit monitoring service for each of its 8,275 workers. The equipment was stolen from a private DWP contractor.
A spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, the union that represents DWP employees, said that his workers were "shocked and upset" by the loss of the data. "They believe this is a direct result of the mania for outsourcing that the DWP has had," said Bob Cherry, a communications consultant for the union. "The DWP should have been paying more attention to the potential impact of sensitive data like this getting sent to outside vendors."
Source: LA Times
