Colorado officials say it's too expensive to password-protect business data

"Colorado officials say putting password protection on corporate data -- where only a business owner or representative can make changes -- is prohibitively expensive. Instead, the state has opted to use e-mail notification any time information is changed to a business' records."

Also, "Dozens of businesses in Colorado, and probably thousands more nationally, are victims of a new and frighteningly easy breed of identity theft in which corporate information is hijacked and millions of dollars in phony credit purchases are made."