[Dataloss] Federal Security Drive Lost At PDX

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PORTLAND - Federal Homeland Security officials say a computer storage
device that may have held personal information on current and former
employees has been lost.

A federal security director says they're relatively confident that it "got
scraped into the trash, and it's gone."

The agency has spent several days trying to determine what information was
on the drive and where it had gone.

The device, called a ThumbDrive, turned up missing Oct. 16 at the
Transportation Security Administration's command center at Portland
International Airport.

The agency has about 500 employees statewide who oversee airport security
checkpoints.

When the device was last backed up a month ago, it contained the names,
Social Security numbers, addresses and telephone numbers of the current
workers and roughly 400 former ones in Oregon.

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