Motorola loses customer data

Motorola has become the latest company to lose heaps of data to thieves who attacked an outsourced business partner.

According to Reuters, two computers containing personal information on Motorola employees were nicked from human resources outfit, Affiliated Computer Services.

The data nicked included names and Social Security numbers but no financial information, according to Motorola.

All the employees have been told and there is no indication that any personal information has been compromised, yet.

ACS said thieves broke into its office in the Chicago area over Memorial Day holidays and stole the computers.

ACS' chief marketing officer, Lesley Pool was quoted as saying that it was "just an amateur burglary". That is ok then, it just matched the outfit's security perfectly. We bet Motorola are relieved that it wasn't professionals, who knows what they would have got away with.

Motorola outsourced its human resources systems to ACS in December 2002 under a 10-year contract valued at $650 million.

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