ING Notebook Stolen With Employee Data

A burglary of an ING Financial Services agent’s home has left 13,000 District of Columbia workers and retirees at risk. The Social Security numbers and other personal data of the workers were stored on a laptop that the ING worker took home. The theft reportedly took place on Monday, June 12, but the company waited several days to confirm what pieces of data were on the laptop. After a delayed response from the company, it was revealed the laptop was not password-protected and the sensitive data was not encrypted.

Do these companies think? If I have a computer that contains private information of over 10,000 people, you can be bet it would be encrypted, let alone password protected.