It's the third breach of data security this summer for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and the Connecticut Attorney General wants answers.Richard Blumenthal thinks this latest incident, where Pfizer has been cracked for personally identifiable information by outside attackers, merits a full criminal investigation of a trio of breaches this summer.
The Day cited an interview with Blumenthal, who excoriated Pfizer over the newest incident:
''This is part of a pattern that is unacceptable and which the company should find intolerable,'' Blumenthal said in a phone interview Tuesday. ''We are alerting criminal authorities, specifically the U.S. Attorney's Office, as to the possibilities of criminal wrongdoing.''
The attorney general would give no specifics about who might be targeted in a criminal probe.
''We have no specific evidence of criminal violations,'' Blumenthal said, ''but a prudent response is to involve criminal investigators from the FBI and other similar authorities.''
Meanwhile, Peter Rost, a former Pfizer vice president who blogs at Question Authority, slammed his old employer over this, saying, ''The clowns at Pfizer clearly have no way of keeping confidential data safe.''
A Pfizer spokesperson said in The Day report that the person responsible for the breach had been fired. We don't think Blumenthal is going to be mollified by this.
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