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Minnesota blood donors' personal data stolen along with laptop

Personal information, including the Social Security numbers of more than a quarter-million Minnesota and Wisconsin donors to Memorial Blood Centers, is in the hands of a thief.

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The organization revealed Wednesday that a laptop containing the names and addresses of 268,000 donors was stolen Nov. 28 as center employees set up a skyway-level blood drive in downtown Minneapolis

How likely is it that the data on this laptop is secured with unbreakable codes? What's the likelihood that the thief in this situation just wanted something to pawn, vs. an opportunity for identity theft? The problem is........nobody knows.

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Reply#1 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 8:02 AM EST
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