I've harped on the idea of securing your data several times over the past month. Not only is it a theoretical risk, but the data vulnerability hits seem to keep on coming. This time it was an employee that had a production database, containing the identity-theft vulnerable data for tens of millions of Americans. Apart from the fact that production, critical data was on a roaming PC, it seems likely by the response that the data isn't encrypted or protected in any meaningful way.
It's sad given that this is hardly the first time this has happened, and it'll inevitably keep on happening.
