TSA Loses Hard Drive With Sensitive Data

by Jordan Yerman | May 7, 2007 at 09:33 am

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The Transportation Security Administration is an arm of the Dept. of Homeland Security, and, as such, should not be in the business of losing hard drives. And yet.

The Transportation Security Administration admitted over the weekend that they had lost a hard drive containing data on approximately 100,000 employees.

Among the data on the hard drive are social security numbers, bank data, and payroll information, potentially enough for any identity thief to steal employees' indentities, and possibly compromise their banking accounts.

TSA officials say the HDD turned up missing from a supposedly secure area in the agency's Washington, DC offices. A letter was sent Friday to employees apologizing for the problem and offering a year's worth of credit monitoring services.

Not so much a Democrat/Republican thing, but more of a common-sense thing: do you think that the TSA does more harm than good?