A laptop with information on almost 200,000 current and former Hewlett-Packard employees was stolen putting them at risk of identity fraud.

The stolen computer belongs to Fidelity Investments, which provides services to HP was being used by several in an off-site location.

The portable PC contains information on 196,000 current and former HP employees including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other employment-related information.

The HP incident is the latest in a string of data security breaches. In the last 13 months, more than 53 million personal records have been exposed in dozens of incidents.Few months ago McAfee reported that an external auditor lost a CD with information on thousands of current and former employees.

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