<b>Technology News:</b> Big US firms dogged by laptop thefts. By John Stokdyk

Big Four accountants Ernst & Young and Deloitte were embarrassed in the US recently when a series of laptop thefts were highlighted in news reports.

In February, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Ernst & Young had written to a group of clients whose Social Security numbers had been stored on a laptop that was stolen from an employee's car.

Around 9,000 employees of security software firm McAfee also had their personal details compromised when a Deloitte

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