Names and credit-card numbers of 243,000 Hotels.com customers were on a laptop stolen from an Ernst & Young employee. The theft occurred in February, according to news reports. Ernst & Y only recently was able to determine what was on the computer’s hard drive. The computer was password-protected, but there was no indication the information had been accessed or misused. The crime appears to be a random theft, Ernst and Young said. For more information, visit CNN.com/newsquiz.”]
Source: https://money.cnn.com/2006/06/02/news/companies/hotels.com_theft/