[Infowarrior] - IRS Laptop Lost With Data on 291 People

[Richard Forno]

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From: Scott Bonacker <cpa at bonackers.com>
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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 19:53:24 -0600
To: <rforno at infowarrior.org>
Subject: What's more stupid than checking your laptop before a flight?

Here's a good one for you Richard.
Scott Bonacker
 
IRS Laptop Lost With Data on 291 People
 Given the likelihood of lost luggage on airlines (especially with valuable
contents), what's more stupid than checking your laptop before a flight?
 An Internal Revenue Service employee lost an agency laptop early last month
that contained sensitive personal information on 291 workers and job
applicants, a spokesman said yesterday. The IRS's Terry L. Lemons said the
employee checked the laptop as luggage aboard a commercial flight while
traveling to a job fair and never saw it again. The computer contained
unencrypted names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and fingerprints of
the employees and applicants, Lemons said. Slightly more than 100 of the
people affected were IRS employees, he said. No tax return information was
in the laptop, he said.
 Christopher Lee, "IRS Laptop Lost With Data on 291 People," The Washington
Post, June 8, 2006 --- Click Here
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/07/AR200606070
1987.html?referrer=email>



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