Payroll, other information on 19,000 workers was published on Web, company says
News Story by Robert McMillan
FEBRUARY 06, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Honeywell International Inc. says a former employee has disclosed sensitive information relating to
19,000 of the company's U.S. employees.
Honeywell discovered the information being published on the Web on Jan. 20 and immediately had the Web site in question pulled down, said company spokesman Robert Ferris.
In court filings dated Jan. 30, the company accused former employee Howard Nugent of Arizona of accessing the information on a Honeywell computer and then causing "the transmission of that information."
Nugent has since been ordered not to disclose any information about Honeywell, including "information about Honeywell's employees (payroll data, Social Security numbers, personal information, etc.)," according to a Jan. 31 order signed by Judge Neil Wake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.