The names, social security numbers and other personally identifying information for 196,000 Hewlett-Packard employees were stored on a laptop stolen from one of the company’s vendors, sources recently revealed.
The stolen computer belonged to finance giant Fidelity Investments. A spokesperson for that firm has been protesting for weeks that the information was not intended to be on a portable device. The company is offering limited credit monitoring services as a result of the data breach.
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This post was written by George Bounacos on May 1, 2006
