IRS Latest Federal Agency to Lose Laptops

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=428&sid=975026

The Internal Revenue Service is the latest federal agency to acknowledge a 
security breach involving missing laptop computers. The breach once again 
puts Americans at risk of identity theft.

According to documents obtained by WTOP through the Freedom of Information 
Act, between 2002 and 2006 year-to-date, the agency charged with 
collecting taxes and protecting taxpayers' personal information had 478 
laptops either lost or stolen.

Of those missing computers, 112 contained sensitive data including the 
Personal Identifiable Information, such as Social Security numbers, for 
some U.S. taxpayers.

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