SAN FRANCISCO VARIOUS COMPUTER THEFTS MENTIONED Window smashed, data lost: "Such agreements, however, clearly aren't foolproof. Wells Fargo learned this in November when a consultant's Concord office was broken into and a computer was stolen containing confidential data on thousands of bank customers.
And data doesn't have to be outsourced to be in danger. Merrill Lynch's Roseville branch near Sacramento was broken into in October, and a dozen computers were stolen containing clients' personal information.
More recently, a laptop containing the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of thousands of Wells Fargo mortgage customers was stolen in late February, when a pair of bank employees traveling in the Midwest stopped at a gas-station convenience store, leaving the keys in the ignition of their unlocked rental car. "