[Dataloss] CA/FL/???: Laptop With Personal Information Stolen At Airport

[Max Hozven]

http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_10105205


Laptop with security applicants' data is found


By MARCUS WOHLSEN Associated Press Writer

Article Launched: 08/05/2008 12:34:41 PM PDT





SAN FRANCISCO-The company that runs an airport security prescreening
program said Tuesday they've found a laptop containing the personal
information of 33,000 people more than a week after it apparently went
missing. 

The Transportation Security Administration suspended new enrollments to
the program, known as Clear, after the unencrypted computer was reported
stolen. 

Officials with Verified Identity Pass, which operates the Clear program,
said the laptop was found Tuesday morning in the same office where it
supposedly had gone missing. 

The program allows passengers to pay to use special "fast lanes" to
avoid long lines at airport security checkpoints. The laptop contained
the personal information of applicants to the program.

 

 

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(this is why editors have jobs!  note the changes between the archive 

and the current story...)

 

http://attrition.org/pipermail/dataloss/2008-August/002610.html

 

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2008/8/5/laptop_with_personal_informa
tion_stolen_at_airport.html

 

A laptop containing personal information for about 33,000 people was 

reported stolen in a possible security breach for the Clear Program,
which 

is in use at the Orlando International Airport.

 

According to the Orlando Sentinel, the laptop was stolen at San
Francisco 

International Airport.

 

[...]

 

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Henry Brown wrote:

 

": " Confirmation the theft PROBABLY occurred  at San Francisco
International 

": " Airport

": " 

": "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR200808
0402703.html

": " http://tinyurl.com/6dajvb

": " 

": " The Transportation Security Administration suspended Verified
Identity 

": " Pass from enrolling travelers in its pre-screening program after a 

": " laptop computer containing the records of 33,000 people went
missing.

": " 

": " AND from the Orlando Sentinel

": " ...

": "
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-clear0508aug05,0,4458701.sto
ry

": " 

": " The federal government on Monday barred a registered-traveler
service 

": " launched three years ago at Orlando International Airport from
enrolling 

": " new members after an unencrypted company laptop containing personal


": " information for about 33,000 prospective customers was stolen from
a 

": " locked office.

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