Fidelity Says Laptop with Customer Data was Stolen

Following in Ameriprise Financial Inc.’s footsteps from January, Fidelity Investments announced Thursday that a laptop containing the personal information for 196,000 Hewlett-Packard retirement plan subscribers had been stolen, according to a report by Reuters.

The stolen laptop went missing earlier this month. Fidelity Investments spokeswoman Anne Crowley would not say where the laptop was stolen from; however, she did add that it was not taken from a Fidelity or a Hewlett-Packard building.

Cracking into the data stored on the laptop will not be easy; the software application needed to read the retirement plan data has expired.

Fidelity has also flagged all 196,000 accounts and applied further security measures to them to protect against potential fraud. As of press time, no unusual account activity has been reported by Fidelity or its customers.

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