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Census Bureau loses hundreds of laptops
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:48:09 -0400 (EDT)
Courtesy Cancer Omega (attrition.org): http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/21/missing.laptops.ap/index.html POSTED: 9:56 p.m. EDT, September 21, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 laptop computers since 2001, most of them assigned to the Census Bureau, officials said Thursday night. The Census Bureau, the main collector of information about Americans, lost 672 computers. Of those, 246 contained some personal data, the department said in a statement. However, no personal information from any of the missing computers has been known to have been improperly used, the department said. The number of people affected by the equipment losses could not be determined, the department said. "All of the equipment that was lost or stolen contained protections to prevent a breach of personal information," said Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez. "The amount of missing computers is high, but fortunately, the vulnerability for data misuse is low." [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 361 incidents over 6 years.
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