LIRR lost records of every current/past employee

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LIRR says it has lost employee records

(New York -AP, April 27, 2006) - The Long Island Rail Road says it has lost personal information, names, addresses, Social Security numbers and salary figures, of virtually everyone who has ever worked for the agency.

Iron Mountain, Incorporated, a Boston company, employed by the railroad to warehouse and secure information at an undisclosed storage site discovered the loss on April Sixth.

During a routine delivery between LIRR headquarters in Jamaica, Queens and the storage site, an Iron Mountain driver noticed that at least one unmarked box was missing.

The LIRR says MTA Police and the NYPD were immediately notified.

On Monday, the railroad mailed a letter from LIRR president James Dermody to approximately 17,000 current and former employees, notifying them about the lost information.

The LIRR has about six thousand current employees.

Newsday reports that the letter said the information on the computer discs was formatted in a way that is very difficult to access without specialized skills, specific software and sophisticated computer equipment.

The LIRR has agreed to provide anyone at risk with a free one-year enrollment with a credit check and identity theft monitoring service.

The railroad has also set up a Web site and telephone hotline for employees with questions about the missing data.

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