A laptop computer containing the names and Social Security numbers of about 16,500 current and former employees of MCI was stolen last month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The computer was stolen from a car that was parked in the garage at the home of an MCI financial analyst in Colorado, the report said.
The long-distance carrier said there was no indication so far that any information has been sold or used for identity theft. The company also said that it notified local law-enforcement immediately and has sent letters to all the people whose information was on the stolen computer.
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Drop-dead date: The European Union has given Microsoft until the end of the month to comply with its antitrust order or face punitive sanctions, the software producer and an EU official said Monday.
The dispute stems from what regulators consider the software maker's recalcitrance in providing server software source code to competitors, and on EU doubts on whether the Windows without Media Player version that Microsoft (MSFT) was forced to produce is technically fully up to standard.
"We will take stock after the end of the month," EU Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd said. The EU has within its rights the possibility to fine Microsoft up to 5 percent of its daily global sales for each day that a decision is not applied to its satisfaction.
Microsoft acknowledged the deadline and said it continues to work with the Commission toward an agreement on full compliance.
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OutSourced: PalmSource (PSRC), which develops operating system software for handheld computers and phones, said David Nagel has stepped down as president, chief executive officer and director.
The company gave no reason for Nagel's departure, which was effective on Sunday, and a PalmSource spokeswoman declined any comment.
PalmSource named Patrick McVeigh, 53, senior vice president, worldwide licensing, as interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement. Nagel, 60, will stay at PalmSource through mid-July in an advisory role.
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Goals set: Hitachi said on Monday it hopes to sell 30,000 security-enhanced personal computers with no hard disk drives this business year at a time of growing concern about corporate data leakage.
Hitachi sees personal computers with advanced security functions as an area of growth as corporations step up efforts to prevent business data from leaking, and it launched its first HDD-less notebook computer in April.
In order to appeal to broader corporate customers, the Tokyo company plans to offer two additional models of security-enhanced desktop and notebook PCs by August.
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AP and Reuters contributed to this report.
