Air Marshals' and Security Screeners' IDs Compromised: 100,000 TSA Employee Records Stolen

[CorpGovActivist]

The FBI and Secret Service have been called in to investigate how an external hard drive containing Social Security numbers, addresses, bank account/direct deposit, and other personally identifiable information for TSA employees was stolen...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tsa+hard+drive+agriculture+air+marshals

(See also the related story - cited in some of the articles - about farmers' farm loan information being posted publicly.)

Just hope the Department of Education doesn't have your student loan data stored on an external hard drive somewhere...

- Dave

[RL3AO]

1. How the hell does that happen? And why were those stored on an external drive?

[CorpGovActivist]

4. No Kidding!

That would be like a loan officer at your local bank storing mortgage application data on an external hard drive.

- Dave

[file83]

7. Because that's what was SUPPOSED to happen....can't rally the populace for National ID

without some good old fashioned fear!

Can't get fear without stolen hard drives.

Can't get stolen hard drives unless they are external.

[snappyturtle]

2. This incompetance is growing like mold. Unreal. nt

[fooj]

3. That story along with the Air Traffic Controller's story is HUGE!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=908981&mesg_id=908981

I'm SOOOOO glad that KO is covering this tonight. We have been working our proverbial tails off to get someone to cover this story. KO is a true patriot.

[CorpGovActivist]

5. At Least One TSA Union Is Suing over the Lost Data...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tsa+hard+drive+union

- Dave

[DemReadingDU]

6. Every day, another scandal

Not much on TV, but Paris Hilton gets a reduced sentence. I guess that is more important.


:eyes:

[LSK]

8. why cant they "loose" a hard drive with Roves emails on it???

:shrug:

[Xenotime]

9. HOW THE FUCK DO PEOPLE NOT USE TRUECRYPT?!?

I use it and it works great. 1000% secure. I use a 5120 bit key...good luck trying to crack that!

[nebenaube]

10. don't kid yourself....

With TIA running, your 5120 bit key will fail to a simple brute force attack in way less time than you might expect.