Who would have thought that such a big company would make a blunder like that and not have military grade encryption like CleverCrypt on their hard disk ? That kind of data is just sweet honey for crackers and identity thieves.
Ernst & Young has lost another laptop containting the social security numbers and other personal information of its clients' employees. This time, the incident puts thousands of IBM workers at risk. Ex-IBM employees are also affected.
The Register has learned that the laptop was stolen from an Ernst & Young employee's car in January. The employee handled some of the tax functions Ernst & Young does for IBM's workers who have been stationed overseas at one time or another during their careers. As a result of the theft, the names, dates of birth, genders, family sizes, SSNs and tax identifiers for IBM employees have been exposed.
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