Staff reports

Some employees will receive free credit monitoring for a year after the incident.

Company spokesman said a "small group" were impacted.

W-2 forms contain information that would be of high value to identity thieves.

Nearly 2,400 Xerox Corp. employees nationwide will receive free credit monitoring for a year after their W-2 forms were mailed in partially or totally unsealed envelopes, a company spokesman said Thursday.

Xerox spokesman Bill McKee said ADP, the company that issued the forms on Xerox's behalf, is working with Xerox "to identify a small group of potentially impacted employees." ADP will pay for the credit monitoring, McKee said.

Approximately 3 percent of Xerox's 78,900 U.S. employees were affected, McKee said. Xerox did not know how many affected employees work in Monroe County, he said.

W-2 forms contain information that would be of high value to identity thieves, including Social Security numbers and annual wage information. The Internal Revenue Service requires companies to issue W-2 forms to all employees by the end of January so they can be used to file income-tax returns.

An ADP spokesman said the company had nothing to add to Xerox's response.