Homeland Security data goes missing

[this_side_up]

Portland - A computer storage device that may hold the personal information of 900 employees is lost
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
ALEX PULASKI

Federal Homeland Security officials in Portland are trying to find a lost computer storage device that may have held personal information on more than 900 current and former employees.

The device, called a ThumbDrive, turned up missing Oct. 16 at the Transportation Security Administration's command center at Portland International Airport. The agency, born after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has about 500 employees statewide who oversee airport security checkpoints.

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

"We have no idea if that employee roster was still on there," he said. "We're concerned because it does have Social Security numbers, and that's why we're taking this so seriously."

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They have no idea?!! What else is new.

http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/business/1161746723210640.xml?oregonian?fng&coll=7

[flyarm]

1. THATS YOUR AIRPORT SECURITY FOLKS!!..SO A TERRORIST

gets SS# of an airport security personal ..and he can do what??

oh yeah... impersonate...

wow.. feeling safer by the day, by the dip shits running this country!

not..........

fly

[luckyleftyme2]

2. fumble stumble and fail

The "bush" administration should go down in history as the greatest failures in history.
Look at their history,911,homeland security, huge budget deficits, KATRINA and of course
IRAQ THE BIGGEST FAILURE OF THE CENTURY!

[Eugene]

3. They're confident the drive was discarded.

I'm so reassured. /sarcasm

Needless to say, that thumbdrive probably wasn't encrypted.