Here is an example of a theft where the true damage is readily identified. That is rare.

Christopher Keating over at Courant.com reports that Attorney General released a 37-page report on Tuesday, October 13, that said that the state tax department failed to safeguard the sensitive data of citizens after acting “in a ‘cavalier and careless’ fashion” with respect to data security.

The data in question were on a laptop that was stolen on Long Island in August of 2007, breaching the Social Security Numbers of 106,000 citizens.

Here’s the tale of the tape:

“The Long Island laptop turned into the million-dollar laptop as the state Department of Revenue Services spent more than that amount in responding to the incident. That total included providing free identity-theft protection to taxpayers and taking measures to prevent miscues in the future.”

Very well said. And it highlights the fact that $10, which is far less than $1,000,000, is a small price to pay to solve the problem with solutions like MyLaptopGPS.