382,000 Boeing Co. retirees and active workers are at risk of identity theft and credit-card fraud because...

"...of the theft of a company laptop computer."

"...As was the case in the other situations, information on the laptop wasn't encrypted."

I bet Vista's Bitlocker would help a lot here

"BitLocker ensures that data stored on a computer running Windows Vista remains encrypted even if the computer is tampered with when the operating system is not running. This helps protect against "offline attacks," attacks made by disabling or circumventing the installed operating system, or made by physically removing the hard drive to attack the data separately."

Cheers