Missing Laptop with IRS Employee and Applicant Data
An Internal Revenue Service employee lost a laptop containing personal information belonging to 291 workers and job applicants.
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.
Here’s a tip: do not check in your laptop. Keep it with you as carry-on luggage on the plane!
Source: Washington Post
Written by MCruz on June 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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