Quite an odd coinkydink.

Less than a month ago, a laptop with veterans’ personal information was stolen from the home of an employee who had taken it home without authorization.

Now, a laptop with similar personal data (including SSNs) of 13,000 D.C. employees and former employees has also been stolen from “the Washington home of an employee of ING U.S. Financial Services, said officials with the company, which administers the district's retirement plan.”

The company did not notify city employees of the theft until late Friday because it took officials several days to determine what information was stored on the laptop, ING spokeswoman Caroline Campbell said.

The laptop was not password-protected and the data was not encrypted, Campbell said.

Two other ING laptops containing information on 8,500 Florida hospital workers were stolen in December, but the employees were not notified until this week, said ING spokesman Chuck Eudy. Neither laptop was encrypted, he said.

That sure is a lot of laptops being stolen out of employees’ homes that just happen to have personal information about government employees on them. Add these 21,500 people to the millions of veterans who have become compromised by a nearly identical crime just a month ago, and that’s a heck of a lot of people who have been made vulnerable by eerily similar crimes.