Comments on: Bristol-Myers Security Breach Hits Untold Thousands

By: VirginiaB

VirginiaB — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:38:48 +0000

I received a letter from James M. Beslity,Global Privacy Office at BMS,on July 17,2008,the letter informed me that my personal information was on the tape that was stolen.Over the past year I have called the Global Privacy Office many times to inquire as to wheher the culprit has been found.Each time I called I was told that no progress had been made as to catching to culprit.

Get this;Today,June 3rd,2009,I called the phone number for the Global Privacy Office and got a recording that said the “phone number for the Privacy Help Line,1-877-214-0689, has been disconnected and there is no further information.” I cannot find James M.Beslity’s email address or his phone number.If anyone knows it please post it on this website or email me directly at airwater2@earthlink.net

Thanks

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:12:23 +0000

I lost the website for this credit monitoring site BMS had us sign up for. Can someone send me the log on page?? Kids trashed my computer and I lost all my favorites/

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:07:57 +0000

Thank you for posting the BMS letter. My mother, who is retired from BMS, received a similar letter, but there was no information in her letter about an activation code. Her identity was compromised on June 14 when someone posing as my mother made an unauthorized transaction on a bank account that we hold jointly. We now believe the two incidences are related. No money was stolen, as I caught the unauth. transaction just in time. The bank account has been closed and a police report was filed. This identify theft not only affected the account we hold jointly, but also the other joint banking and brokerage accounts that I hold with my husband and adult child, and the joint banking and brokerage account that my mother has with my father. I put a 90-day fraud alert using Equifax (free) on ALL of our credit reports. Equifax is supposed to notify all three credit bureaus. We filed a police report, and now I am in the process of submitting the information to put a 7-year extended fraud alert on her credit report (again free, but you must submit the required paperwork). All our credit cards had to be reissued as well. A major headache for all.

By: BMS Sucks

BMS Sucks — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:24:56 +0000

BMS sucks! That credit monitoring is a total scam. That Triple Advantage service has loads of complaints and lawsuits from THEIR OWN business practices– like not letting you cancel after the free year, and charging you every month, etc.

This needs a Class Action Lawsuit filed immediately!

Not using encryption HAS to violate some serious regulatory rules.

DO NOT PUT UP WITH THIS. TAKE ACTION!

By: Super P'Od

Super P'Od — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:53:47 +0000

I am an employee and I am stunned by the response to this security breach by BMS. One YEAR of free credit monitoring? What a JOKE!
And for the folks in NY, they are not even covered by the identity theft insurance. So what do they get? A big fat nothing! Ok, so once my credit has been destroyed, I can find out by getting a report from the credit agency. Thanks, so much, Bristol! How very kind of you. If there is a class-action suit started, I want in. And all this that has to be done to protect myself and my spouse WILL be done on work time. Core Behaviors my a$$. Look what you’ve done to me and mine. And all you have to say is……………oh, sorry. BS

By: Will Be Suing

Will Be Suing — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:11:24 +0000

I am beginning by writing a letter to James Beslity and Laura Hortas expressing my extreme disappointment - I would suggest everyone else do the same. How dare they give us such a ridiculous solution of 1 year monitoring that only covers one person and one credit agency. Nothing less than total monitoring for ALL members of my household for at least 10 years or more is acceptable. I would also like the moron’s head on a platter who did not encrypt the data. BMS boats high-security yet they fail to do the obvious. What a joke! I hope their information was on the tape too! I’ll see what my lawyer has to say as well cause I’m going to be standing by in case my data is used by these thieves.

By: Former employee

Former employee — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:35:56 +0000

It is impossible to understand the telephone operators in the call center in India and they don’t understand you! This is a scary arrangement.

By: vincent

vincent — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:46:19 +0000

If the greedy corporate honchos would keep data in the USA, this may have been avoided. And when you call India, has anyone been able to understand what is said.

By: VERY PO'D

VERY PO'D — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:22:22 +0000

How is it we have thousands of passwords to get into any and everything at BMS, but they expose us in such a way? Guess I should just publixh the web site and password to all pricing information…and then tell the company OOOPS…SORRY.

By: PO'd

PO'd — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:55:46 +0000

I work at bms and got the letter yesterday. WHAT A LOAD OF SH*T FROM THE ASSES IN SUITS. How can a company that prides itself on maintaining intellectual property allow MY FREAKIN DATA TO BE STOLEN.

What a mess. Who’s starting the law suit b/c I’m getting onboard.