Somewhere, thieves may already be drunk on the confidential information identifying close to 200,000 current and former employers of domestic brewer Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. That’s because two laptops belonging to the firm went missing to thieves in June, according to The Associated Press. As typically seems to be the case with such thefts, “the company does not believe any fraudulent credit transactions or cases of identity theft have resulted from the laptop thefts,” reports the AP.

The question is, how can any company that has lost computers containing hundreds of thousands of employees’ Social Security numbers, addresses, dates of birth and more possibly believe the information isn’t somehow at risk? Any company that has lost computers to thieves ought to assume this to be the case.

Why?

It is nearly a certainty that valuable information, encrypted or not, in the hands of criminals is going to leave those it identifies at the mercy of identity thieves. In fact, this information’s availability is likely the very reason for the scope and magnitude of laptop theft. Once that information is gone, the pain really begins, as A-B has probably learned in marshaling the effort to notify potential victims, who reside in states across the nation.

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