Online marketplaces like Amazon and Walmart are hampered in identifying and blocking questionable activity because sellers are anonymous and have few requirements to use those platforms. Falling off a truck and onto the Internet It's possible the employee was searching on eBay with the intent of finding the stolen property and simply got lucky. It's unclear how the employee found the storage device on eBay, knew it belonged to SAP, and confirmed this. Please understand that while we don’t comment on internal investigations, we can confirm we currently have no evidence suggesting that confidential customer data or PII has been taken from the company via these disks or otherwise." Advertisement The Register claimed that SAP European data centers had endured five burglaries over the past two years.Īrs Technica reached out to SAP about the report and received this statement, which The Register also received: SAP is investigating the situation now and reportedly still doesn't know where the other three SSDs are. The data centers that held the lifted SSDs lacked "physical checks," The Register said, allowing someone to move the devices from a secure location to a less-secure building elsewhere on campus, The Register's sources claimed.
The disk contained personal records of 100 or more SAP employees," The Register reported. They were able to identify that it belonged to SAP. "One of the disks later turned up on eBay and was bought by an SAP employee. According to unnamed "sources close to the incident," the device was loaded with personal information for dozens of workers. According to a report from The Register on Wednesday, the employee found one of four SSDs recently stolen from SAP data centers in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, for sale on eBay.
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That's reportedly what happened to an employee at the software company SAP. Encountering counterfeit, stolen, broken, or falsely advertised goods sold by third parties isn't surprising, but finding something that was stolen from you is. Sketchy deals on eBay and other online marketplaces happen all the time. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images reader comments 77 with
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