226,000 clients of Ameriprise had client information stolen including SS #'s etc

[Engineer]

Click me!

Now hacking into corporate servers and such is one thing, but to have a laptop with 226,000 clients information stored on it in a car just sounds like an invitation to be stolen. Sure, might have been a petty theif but the idea that they carry around that much information in a laptop sets off alarms in my book. I wonder how many others do the same....

 

[mooglekit]

This is a relatively common practice among colleges (I'm not sure about other businesses). College employees, particularly admissions employees with laptops, frequently have large amounts of data including personal information of incoming/current studnets including addresses, SS#s, etc. Kinda scary...never know where your data may be...

 

[FoBoT]

that is why we now encrypt the hard drive of all laptops used by managers, etc

 

[MisterJackson]

You'd be surprised how much of your info is just floating around out there.

 

[SaltBoy]

If that means no more hippie-loving, baby-booming, "we're 60 and still hip" commericals, then it's a good thing!

 

[MisterJackson]

Hippies need love too!