The office of two accountants sharing an office in a strip mall was recently broken into in Scottsdale, Ariz., and the only things stolen were the computers.
Not the monitors. Not the keyboards. Not the stereos. The crooks were apparently looking for confidential client data. It was a nightmare for both accountants — and not happy news for their clients either. Be warned: Accountants could become increasingly common targets of identity thieves.
“Hanging a CPA sign on your door is like posting an invitation to ‘come, steal my client data.'”
— Mike Garland, Marketing Manager, DataPreserve, an online backup service