Madoff investors' security may have been breached

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.newsday.com/business/madoff-investors-security-may-have-been-breached-1.1466325?localLinksEnabled=false

More than 2,200 Bernard  Madoff investors are learning that some of their 
personal and financial information has potentially been breached after the 
July theft of a laptop in Dallas, Newsday has learned.

The names, addresses, Social Security numbers and some Madoff account 
information on 2,246 investors was contained in a computer stolen from the 
car of an employee of AlixPartners Llp, the consulting firm that has been 
processing victims' claims in the Ponzi scheme, a company spokesman, Tim 
Yost, said Tuesday.

Yost said the laptop was password-protected and not targeted, but was 
taken in what Dallas police said was a "smash and grab" series of thefts 
on one particular night at a parking lot.

"We have no reason to believe it [investor data] has been compromised," 
Yost said.

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