"TSA Loses Hard Drive With Personal Info"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Transportation Security Administration has lost a computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers, bank data and payroll information for about 100,000 employees.

Authorities realized Thursday the hard drive was missing from a controlled area at TSA headquarters. TSA Administrator Kip Hawley sent a letter to employees Friday apologizing for the lost data and promising to pay for one year of credit monitoring services.

"TSA has no evidence that an unauthorized individual is using your personal information, but we bring this incident to your attention so that you can be alert to signs of any possible misuse of your identity," Hawley wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press. "We profoundly apologize for any inconvenience and concern that this incident has caused you."

The agency said it did not know whether the device is still within headquarters or was stolen.

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20070505/D8OU56TO0.html

This has happened so many times, clearly it can't be an accident. So, who is doing it and why? Doesn't the junta already have acccess to all this info?

[MADem]

1. Wow, how quick of THEM to offer credit monitoring--though only one lousy year of it

Hell, save the data and use it in a year, in that case...that's what a sensible crook would do, I should imagine.

What an INCOMPETENT arm of our government. They put innocent people on the no-fly and watch lists, they act like thugs, they don't add to safety, but simply promote fear, and now, they have given away the data on the schmucks they've conned to do their lousy bidding.

I say get rid of the organization entirely. They aren't helping.