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Time Warner Loses Data on 600,000 Current, Ex-workers

Time Warner Inc. said Monday that data on 600,000 people stored on computer backup tapes was lost by an outside storage company and that the Secret Service is now investigating. A company spokeswoman said that the tapes contained names and Social Security information on current and former Time Warner employees and some of their dependents and beneficiaries dating back to 1986.

Time Warner employee data missing, CNN, May 3, 2005.