Ford may have lost personal information of 70,000 employees

Just one week after Ford Motor Company informed its white-collar employees and retirees that it would reduce their health-care benefits the company VP of human resources Joe Laymon has circulated an email to employees informing them that their confidential data, including social security numbers, has been stolen from a Ford facility.

The 70,000 current and former employees were informed in the email that their data may have been stolen, though Laymon did reassure them that there is "no evidence that there has been identity theft or misuse of employee information." A rather hollow sounding reassurance considering that the company had to send out the email in the first place.