Stolen Fidelity laptop held info on thousands of customers

The AP reports:

BOSTON --A laptop belonging to Fidelity Investments that held the names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers and other information of 196,000 retirement account customers was stolen last week, the company says.

The nation's largest mutual fund manager said Wednesday that the computer held information on participants in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s pension and 401(k) plans and that it is has alerted those affected, offering them free credit monitoring for 12 months.

You can't worry about your Social Security number being stolen if there isn't Social Security.