Starbucks lost four laptops, two of which contained information on 60 thousand employees.  Ronald is one of the affected employees.  Since he was still working in Houston until two weeks ago, we didn't change our address until the 20th of October.  Yet the letter Starbucks sent came to this new address, without being forwarded.  Nor was there any indication that on the original envelope "forwarding address requested" information was posted.

Starbucks is proposing that it give Ron a free year of Equifax Silver.  Hmmm.  Right after Ronald checks all of his credit reports and sees if Starbucks illegally checked his credit report to get his new address.  Certainly, the poor sap who answered the phone for the "Security" center had no clue how Starbucks had our new address so quickly.  The only people given the new address were our credit cards and our bank.  Which means, the credit bureaus....

So while Starbucks is trying to assure these employees that their information has not been used illegally by someone outside their company, they have used the information to illegally access my husband's credit report. 

Something really, really stinks in Seattle.