Undisclosed number of Verizon employees at risk of identity theft

    March 8, 2006

    http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6047682.html

   A theft of two laptop computers has put a "significant number" of Verizon
   Communications' employees at risk of having their identities stolen, the
   company said Wednesday.

   The  computers  were  pilfered from a company facility and may contain
   important personal information, such as Social Security numbers, according
   to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Verizon executives told employees in
   a March 1 letter that the theft appears to be "a random criminal act" and
   that the laptops were password-protected, according to the Journal.

   Verizon executives told the Journal that both current and former employees
   could be at risk. Verizon is offering affected workers free use of a credit
   monitoring service to help them watch out for identity theft.

   Other companies that have suffered similar data losses are Bank of America
   and ChoicePoint.
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