[vox_freedom]

To answer my own question, all this data was on a laptop.

Un...believeable! Boeing employee data on a laptop

[grey_whiskers]

A computer that contained Social Security numbers and other personal information for 161,000 current and former Boeing Co. employees was stolen, the company said Friday. [snip]

It added that no sensitive company information or supplier or customer data was stored on the computer, which was owned by the company but stolen from a non-Boeing site.

Well thank goodness nothing important like supplier or customer data was stolen, just all the makings of ID theft for all 161,000 employees.

This attitude again demonstrates that the ranks of executives are disproportionately populated by vermin.

[r9etb]

Un...believeable! Boeing employee data on a laptop

Sigh. Yeah, I'm sure that whoever put the data there in the first place had a Really Good Reason for doing so. I'm aghast, actually, that it was even possible to get the data -- what possible use would a person with a laptop have for that sort of information?

I suspect a search of said person's bank accounts is likely to show a recent large deposit.

[js1138]

It's my understanding that laptop hard drives can be password protected and that this is about as secure as commercial encryption gets.

Am I wrong?