NASA scrambles to encrypt laptops after major breach

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9233645/NASA_scrambles_to_encrypt_laptops_after_major_breach

By Jaikumar Vijayan
Computerworld
November 14, 2012

NASA is scrambling to implement full disk encryption on agency laptops 
after one containing unencrypted personal information on a "large" 
number of people was recently stolen.

Agency employees were told of the October 31 theft of the laptop and 
NASA documents from a locked car in an email message Tuesday from 
Richard Keegan Jr., associate deputy administrator at NASA.

Keegan told employees that the stolen laptop contained sensitive 
"Personally Identifiable Information" (PII) about a large number of NASA 
employees, contractors and others.

"Although the laptop was password protected, it did not have whole disk 
encryption software, which means the information on the laptop could be 
accessible to unauthorized individuals," Keegan warned.

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