[Dataloss] CA: Customer data on stolen laptop

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http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2008/05/14/5560321-sun.html

The theft of a laptop computer containing hundreds of clients' 
confidential information from a Calgary bank employee's vehicle has raised 
concerns for Alberta's privacy commissioner.

In a letter sent yesterday to its customers, First Calgary Savings said a 
vehicle parked in a secured underground parkade was vandalized and the 
bank employee's laptop and cellphone stolen last month.

A recipient of the letter, 14-year First Calgary client Doug Gablehaus, 
said he was "livid" to hear personal information would have been left in a 
vehicle.

"It's unacceptable ... that's the way identity theft goes," said 
Gablehaus, adding he might now take his business elsewhere.

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