Boeing says laptop with employee info stolen, Reuters

“A laptop computer containing names, social security numbers and other sensitive information of 161,000 current and former employees of Boeing Co. was stolen recently, the U.S. aerospace manufacturer said on Friday.”

Editor’s note: The obvious question that comes to mind is why on Earth such sensitive information was sitting on a stand-alone – and portable – computer system.

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