Security News > 2009 > September > Madoff investors' security may have been breached

http://www.newsday.com/business/madoff-investors-security-may-have-been-breached-1.1466325 By ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO Newsday September 22, 2009 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. News of the theft circulated Tuesday among the universe of Madoff victims as federal prosecutors disclosed in a court filing that about half of the investors were net winners because they actually withdrew more money than they gave to Madoff. But prosecutors also noted that nearly half of Madoff's customers sustained net losses in that they contributed more funds to Madoff than they withdrew. [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org

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