NM: Laptop with personal data taken from food pantry

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=9868859&nav=AbC0

An Albuquerque food pantry is warning its clients that tens of thousands 
of them are at risk for identity theft after a laptop computer containing 
their personal information was stolen last week.

The Rio Grande Food Project says the computer contained sensitive personal 
data -- including addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers -- of 
36,000 clients.

The food bank is sending letters in English and Spanish to all clients 
over the past three years with current addresses regarding the identity 
theft risk.

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