Aon said it is investigating circumstances surrounding a missing computer disk with the names and personal information of about 200,000 individuals working for Alcatel-Lucent.

On Thursday, Alcatel-Lucent, a Paris-based communications company, said it sent an e-mail informing its employees that between April 5 and May 3 a disk containing the name, address, Social Security number, date of birth and salary data of past and current employees was either lost or stolen.

The company was notified on May 7 of the missing disk, and made the loss public Thursday.

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