Tech Giant General Electric (GE) Discloses Data Breach After Service Provider Hack

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Tech Giant GE Discloses Data Breach After Service Provider Hack
March 23, 2020
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Fortune 500 technology giant General Electric (GE) disclosed that personally identifiable information of current and former employees, as well as beneficiaries, was exposed in a security incident experienced by one of GE's service providers.

GE is a multinational operating in a wide range of tech segments including aviation, power, healthcare, and renewable energy, and it is currently ranked by Fortune 500 as the 21st-largest company in the U.S. by revenue.
GE currently has customers in more than 180 countries and in excess of 280,000 employees according to the company's 2018 annual report.
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Employees and beneficiaries' PII exposed
GE says in a notice of data breach filed with the Office of the California Attorney General that Canon Business Process Services (Canon), a GE service provider, had one of their employees' email accounts breached by an unauthorized party in February.

"We were notified on February 28, 2020 that Canon had determined that, between approximately February 3 - 14, 2020, an unauthorized party gained access to an email account that contained documents of certain GE employees, former employees and beneficiaries entitled to benefits that were maintained on Canon’s systems," the notification says.
GE also states that the sensitive personal information exposed during the incident was uploaded by or for current and former GE employees, as well as "beneficiaries entitled to benefits in connection with Canon’s workflow routing service."
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