While access to real-time data is a great tool for financial industry professionals, going in the branch to meet a financial or mortgage representative is still necesary in some cases.

With unsecured sensitive data stored on licensed individuals' laptops it can get lost or stolen ( and has by a Wells Fargo rep) and other large institutions. I know one gentleman who still sends his data via fax. The conveniences of digitied data are great bit with come security risks that have ballooned identity theft to never before seen numbers. Just ask the IRS.

Better passwords and deleting or erasing of this data needs to be implemented.