An employee is illuminated by the screen of an Apple Inc. laptop computer in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- This essay is going to scare you. There is a better-than-average chance that, at some point in the last several years, your personal information was stolen. Not something small like a credit card account, but the good stuff, your Social Security number coupled with your birthdate.