Ernst and Young is the latest company to fall into the data breach spotlight due to a lost laptop. An E&Y laptop was lost which had the personal information of over 38,000 British Petroleum employees. BP officials began notifying their employees that their personal information may have been exposed and may put them at risk of identity theft. In this particular case, social security numbers were among the personal information on the laptop.

The UK IT Trade web site, The Register, had the following headline:

40,000 BP workers exposed in Ernst & Young laptop loss

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