[privacy] USDA Laptop with Personal Data Compromised

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Boston Globe (AP).

[snip]

A laptop computer bag was stolen from an Agriculture Department
worker's car in Kansas, and the names, addresses and Social Security
numbers of about 350 employees may have been accessed, the department said.

The case, containing a computer and a printout of the data, has since
been returned to a meat plant, department spokesman Ed Loyd said
Tuesday. But it was obvious someone had rummaged through the case, Loyd
said.

The theft may have affected about 350 full-time and part-time employees
and state contractors involved in federal Agricultural Marketing
Service meat grading programs in 30 states and the District of
Columbia, the department said.

[snip]

More:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/07/18/usda_laptop_with_personal_data_compromised/

- ferg


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