[Dataloss] Undisclosed Number of Verizon Employees at Risk of ID Theft

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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.

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