TSA Loses Hard Drive With Personnel Info

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.'"

Comments

Put Management's Data In The Databases

[NeverVotedBush]

Why does it take a data breach happening to some organization to get them to decide to protect information?

Maybe a law should be made that any organization that is trusted with public data be forced to imbed all of their CEO's, CFO's, other officers, management, and shareholder's data in the same databases.

I know that the reason all this data keeps getting exposed is because management would rather save money instead of training their IT staff (if they need it) or just giving them the time to implement good, safe, data handling practices. Put their data on the line too and let's see how they decide about safe data handling practices.

supposed to be unique, not always

[davidwr]

SS#s are supposed to be unique. They aren't recycled.

Every now and then you find out about a SS# that is not unique. The SS office issues new number to one or both individuals and mea culpas all around. See this news story for one example.