TSA loses hard drive with personal info
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press
Last updated: 8:03 a.m., Saturday, May 5, 2007
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration has lost a computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers, bank data and payroll information for about 100,000 employees.
Authorities realized Thursday the hard drive was missing from a controlled area at TSA headquarters. TSA Administrator Kip Hawley sent a letter to employees Friday apologizing for the lost data and promising to pay for one year of credit monitoring services.
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The department feels very lucky that the Bettendorf, Iowa Junior Achievement company Eagle Security Automobile Flare-CO allowed it to use their logo.
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(Nick Wass, FILE / AP)
Transportation Security Administration head Kip Hawley explains the new rules governing confrontations with wheelchair bound elderly women. After a series of unfortunate incidents (many arose from the subject’s difficulty hearing), the TSA felt it would be better to teach employees using a take-off on the Goofus & Gallant characters made famous in HIGHLIGHTS magazine.On the page following Goofus’ threat to toss the woman down a flight of stairs, Gallant is shown whispering to the woman about the possibility of future incarceration.
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