From: lyger (lygerattrition.org)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2006 - 07:33:57 CST

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(follow-up to yesterday's HP retirees story)

Courtesy InfoSec News <isnc4i.org>

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/14162732.htm

By Nicole C. Wong
Mercury News
Mar. 22, 2006

A Fidelity Investments laptop that contained the names, addresses,
Social Security numbers, birth dates, compensation and other
information for 196,000 current and former Hewlett-Packard employees
participating in the company-sponsored retirement plan was stolen a
week ago, the two companies confirmed Wednesday.

Fidelity sent e-mails and letters overnight to the retirement plan
participants notifying them of the security breach. The Boston-based
financial services company, which administers HP's defined benefit
pension plan and 401k retirement plan, has subsequently stepped up
monitoring of its HP accounts and added more authentication measures
so people must provide extra personal information to access their
accounts.

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