A computer lost by Marsh insurance brokerage's technologysubsidiary CS Stars, with personal information from more than540,000 injured New York workers, has been recovered, Starsannounced.

Chicago-based Stars said in a statement that the computercontaining the names, addresses, telephone and Social Securitynumbers of individuals receiving workers' compensation benefits,managed through New York state's Special Funds ConservationCommittee, was found and secured.

CS Stars said the FBI, which still is conducting aninvestigation, said it is reasonably sure there was no use of thedata.

An FBI spokeswoman in Chicago said the desktop computer is beingtested to see if data was accessed. She confirmed that the FBI isreasonably certain there was no use of the data.

The investigation, she said, is ongoing and she could notcomment further on where the computer was located or if theft wasinvolved. She also could not say how long it would be before theFBI inquiry is completed.

Alfred J. Modugno, a spokesman for Marsh, explained that acomputer containing the information was lost on May 9, but the losswas not reported to management until June 19. After aninvestigation by management and Kroll, MMC's investigativeservices, it was confirmed that the hardware was missing; theSpecial Funds was alerted of the problem June 29.

Special Funds Conservation Committee manages and maintains thestate's Special Disability Fund and the Fund for ReopenedCases.

Last week, CS Stars mailed letters to the 540,000 peopleaffected by the incident. The company offered each person a numberof free services and coverage, including daily monitoring ofnational credit reports for 12 months and $25,000 in identity theftinsurance.

The company said it would continue to offer these services andcoverage to each person. It added that it would follow up bynotifying those affected by the loss that the computer wasrecovered.

The company declined to make any additional comments.

According to Karen Allen, director of operations for SpecialFunds, the desktop was sent to CS Stars for data conversion. It wasreceived by the company at its secure facility. Details as towhether the computer was misplaced or stolen were still notreleased today.