The theft of a laptop from a financial services company containing thousands of personal files has clients asking how it could have happened.
The laptop of an MD Management employee, containing information on 8,000 clients, was stolen from a parked car in an Edmonton shopping mall parking lot on June 19.
Mehadi Sayed, a computer security specialist at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, said the incident shows that consumers have to ask how their confidential information will be stored and protected.
