“Personal information belonging to 34,000 investment clients of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has been lost, and possibly stolen, in a data breach. According to two letters sent to clients, and obtained by Credit.com, the information includes clients’ names, addresses, account and tax identification numbers, the income earned on the investments in 2010, and—for some clients—Social Security numbers.
The data was saved on two CD-ROMs that were protected by passwords, according to the letters, but the CDs were not encrypted.”
(Source: Morgan Stanley Data Breach Hits Investors | Credit.com News + Advice.)