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TSA Loses Hard Drive with 100,000 Employees' Social Security Numbers
Posted on May 6, 2007 by Michelle Pastor
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has lost a computer hard drive with information on 100,000 of its past and present employees. The files of TSA employees from January of 2002 to August of 2005 were on the hard drive with records of Social Security numbers, bank account numbers and other payroll information.
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.
If I were one of the unlucky employees affected, I’d do more than just keep an eye on my credit through credit monitoring, I would start by quickly closing out my bank accounts and reopening new ones with different account numbers.
Read the whole story on FOXNews.com.
Filed under: Data Breach, Identity Theft
Tags: identitytheft, idtheft, Transportation Security Administration, TSA
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