More Laptop Computers Being Stolen from Rental Cars

The recent theft in Palo Alto of a laptop containing sensitive data on 196,000 current and former Hewlett-Packard employees appears to be part of a growing local problem with laptop theft, much of it targeting rental cars parked near restaurants popular with business executives. It's become such a problem around Silicon Valley that a dozen law enforcement agencies, including local police departments, the FBI and U.S. Customs Department, met to discuss the issue.