Hotels.com Information Stolen

American Voices

June 13, 2006 | ISSUE 42•23

A laptop containing sensitive information about Hotels.com customers was recently stolen from an Ernst and Young employee's car. What do you think?

Great, now everyone at work will know about my thing for amenities.

Doodles McKennan
Costume Designer
Dogs, toddlers, laptops with credit-card information—this list of things not to leave locked in a car on a hot day just keeps getting longer and longer.

Tina Garland
Lens Grinder
Forget the confidential client information. Have you ever seen so much Rick Astley on a single iTunes collection?

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