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TEXAS COMPANY SAYS PERSONAL INFORMATION UNTAPPED ON STOLEN COMPUTER Company says personal information untapped on stolen laptop | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Oct. 25, 2007, 4:39PM
Company says personal information untapped on stolen laptop

DALLAS — The chief executive of a personnel-services company said Thursday there is no indication that anyone has tapped personal information on nearly 160,000 people that was contained on a stolen computer.

Paul J. Sarvadi, the CEO of Houston-based Administaff Inc., said the company has finished notifying people whose information was on the computer.

Administaff disclosed last week that the laptop computer was reported missing Oct. 3. The machine had information including Social Security numbers, names and addresses for 63,000 employees and 96,000 former employees who were paid by the company, which provides personnel services for small businesses.

Sarvadi said the missing computer hasn't been recovered. He said it was stolen from an employee's car, which was parked outside a grocery store.

The computer was password-protected, but the personal information was not kept in an encrypted file, in violation of company policy, he said.

The company offered to pay for one year of credit-monitoring services with fraud assistance for the affected workers.