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Second laptop from DOT in Miami is also missing
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:16:39 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15274879.htm Posted on Tue, Aug. 15, 2006 The U.S. Department of Transportation inspector general's office is hunting for not one, but two missing laptops from Miami that disappeared in the past three months, The Miami Herald learned Monday. Last week, authorities confirmed that a Miami-based agent with the inspector general's office lost a laptop filled with the unencrypted personal information of 133,000 Floridians -- the latest in a string of embarrassing data breaches by federal agencies. In late April, one of the agent's bosses reported her laptop stolen from an Orlando hotel where she was organizing a national transportation fraud conference. Barbara L. Barnet, special agent-in-charge of the DOT inspector general's Miami office, told an Orange County sheriff's investigator that her missing Dell laptop contained ``several case files which are not encrypted due to computer conversions at work.'' Barnet said she left the laptop inside a locked conference room at the Orlando Wyndham Resort for approximately 45 minutes on April 24. When she returned, the door to the conference room was open, a hotel employee was inside and the computer was gone. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 142 million compromised records in 301 incidents over 6 years.
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