http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20101014/NEWS01/101014035/1002/ACCOMACK--County-laptop-stolen-on-employee-s-trip-to-Vegas--residents--SSNs-compromised ACCOMAC — An Accomack employee had a county-owned laptop computer stolen while on a personal vacation to Las Vegas, and with it the names and Social Security numbers of roughly 35,000 county residents. In some cases, actual addresses of county residents also may have been included in computer files. “It was taken there without permission,” said County Administrator Steve Miner of the computer. Miner said the worker remains employed. The matter was discussed during a closed meeting of the Board of Supervisors on Wednesday. “We really haven’t resolved the personnel side of this,” he said. The incident happened on the evening of Oct. 7. The county waited seven days before issuing a prepared release to media warning citizens of it. He said letters will be sent to affected residents “very soon.” Miner said the county began determining what was on the computer immediately after its theft. “We have since been trying to work on the problem,” he said. “That was not something we knew, in terms of files. That took some forensic work. Then we had to figure out what it meant.” Neither Miner nor the release named the employee who had the computer stolen. [...]