Fidelity Laptop With Customer Info. Stolen
- Mar 23, 2006 11:29 AM (AP Online)
BOSTON (AP) -- A laptop computer belonging to Fidelity Investments
and containing sensitive data on about 196,000 retirement-account
customers was stolen last week, the company said.
The nation's largest mutual-fund manager confirmed reports Thursday
that the computer held information on participants in Hewlett-Packard
Co.'s pension and 401(k) plans and that it has alerted those
affected, offering them free credit monitoring for 12 months.
The data included names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security
numbers and other information that potentially could be used by
identity thieves.
There is no evidence that the data has been misused, Fidelity
spokeswoman Anne Crowley said. Fidelity is not disclosing where the
laptop was stolen from, just that it was in the United States, she
said.
Boston-based Fidelity, the sole provider of Hewlett-Packard's defined
benefit and defined contribution plans, said it would reimburse
account holders for any losses linked to unauthorized transactions
connected to the stolen laptop.
It is unusual to have so much information on one laptop, Crowley
said, but the computer in question was brought to a business meeting
by a team of employees.
Fidelity said the license to the software that contained the data has
expired and, as a result, the scrambled data is difficult to
interpret.
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