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TSA Loses Hard Drive With Personnel Info

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the living-up-to-their-name dept.

WrongSizeGlass writes "A portable hard drive containing personnel data for former and current employees, went missing from a controlled area at the TSA. From the article: 'The Transportation Security Administration has lost a computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers, bank data and payroll information for about 100,000 employees.'"

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  1. Ha! Ha! by mobby_6kl · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now they'll experience how it feels to be on the receiving end of violation of privacy!

  2. Re:Encrypted ? by cp.tar · · Score: 3, Funny

    All your files are belong to us?

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  3. This bears repeating by lawpoop · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wayne Madsen is maintaining a chart of data thefts of personal information. He lists 3 or 4 dozens thefts. He believes these thefts are an attempt to populate the Total Information Awareness databases.

    Never ascribe to incompetence what can be explained by malice, I guess.

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  4. Update! by alisson · · Score: 1, Funny
    From the TSA:

    JK, no biggie, guys! We just got it as an .pdf attachment from some nice citizen at "i.r.t3h.l33t.haxxr.@hotmail.com!" It also has a cool .exe file, which he assures me is a some security software to keep or data safe! I've installed it on all computers containing sensitive information, so no worries :)
  5. Re:The problem isn't using the SSNs by smittyoneeach · · Score: 1, Funny

    I forget the reference, but I heard that when they move from SSNv4 to SSNv6 that there will be enough numbers for everything on the planet, and stuff.

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  6. You can't make this stuff up, folks by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm waiting for the news story that says the Department of Homeland Security just lost a hard drive with the personal information of every Federal agent in the government and all the White House security information on it.

    These people are morons. Their sole purpose in life is to screw up while pushing other people around with self-righteous notions that THEY are the ones "protecting" everybody else.

    It's the "cop mentality" writ large - which is the same basic mentality as a Mafia protection racket.

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  7. The untold story by sjames · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently the screeners were distracted when someone tried to enter the area with a photo of a shampoo bottle and so they didn't notice the theft. According to the DHS, the photo was probably inserted into the shampoo ad by an al-Queda operative.