[Dataloss] San Francisco Gymboree

[Dissent]

San Francisco's Gymboree, the kids' clothing retailer, took a more
proactive stance after a thief recently hit the company twice in the
same week, making off with three laptops and potentially endangering
as many as 20,000 employees.

... In letters this month to as many as 20,000 employees affected by
the incident, Gymboree says only that "three laptop computers were
stolen from the corporate headquarters."

... The insider said the three laptops contained unencrypted human
resources data that potentially included the names and Social Security
numbers of thousands of company workers.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/27/BUGQPM0HOO1.DTL