Security News > 2020 > March > GE Employees Lit Up with Sensitive Doc Breach

A phisher's treasure chest of personally identifiable information for General Electric employees has been exposed - thanks to the compromise of one of the company's partners, Canon Business Process Services.

The impact of the breach effects current and former GE employees and beneficiaries entitled to benefits, the conglomerate said.

GE was notified on February 28 that Canon had suffered the breach.

"In all these cases the breach might have been prevented with a strong password policy and employee security training."

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