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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. Why was this on a portable HD in the first place? by wwphx · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been in gov't IT for 15 years, this should never have left the server farm. If it had to be on a portable device, it should have been a laptop and heavily encrypted, not that I can see a good reason to give anyone that info. The retirement planning people can make do with very little info.

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