Two thousand six was the year of laptop theft. In February, a laptop was stolen from an Ernst & Young employee’s car containing tens of thousands of Social Security numbers belonging to its clients’ employees. Also, in December, a Boeing Co. employee’s laptop that contained the SSNs, dates of birth, salaries and other confidential information on more than 300,000 individuals was stolen. And, those are only two of the dozens of high profile incidents occurring last year that compromised the personal information of millions of Americans.

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Published in SearchFinancialSecurity on 01/17/08