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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. Re:This bears repeating by flyingfsck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    TIA can probably be populated very easily from second-hand drives bought on Ebay.

    The sad thing is that ALL modern drives have an effective erase capability built in:
    http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/Hughes/SecureErase.html
    but few people know that and fewer still use it before disposing of a drive.

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