NEW YORK — More than 2,200 Bernard Madoff investors are learning that some of their personal and financial information has potentially been breached after the July theft of a laptop in Dallas, Newsday has learned.
The names, addresses, Social Security numbers and some Madoff account information pertaining to 2,246 investors were contained in a computer stolen from the car of an employee of AlixPartners LLP, the consulting firm that has been processing claims of victims in the Ponzi scheme, a company spokesman said.
Madoff investors, already devastated by terrible financial losses, are angered that they are just now learning about the theft in letters sent by AlixPartners through the regular mail.
AlixPartners said it kept the news of the theft confidential until now at the request of law enforcement in Dallas. It is offering to pay investors for two years of credit-checking service.
