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Department of Transportation Laptop Containing Data on 130,000 Stolen

A Reuters newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

A U.S. government computer loaded with approximately 133,000 drivers' and pilots' records — including Social Security numbers — was stolen last month, the Department of Transportation said Wednesday.

The department's Office of Inspector General said one of its laptops was taken from a government vehicle in Doral, Florida, on July 27. The agency is sending letters to those whose information may have been compromised.

The theft follows the revelation this week that a computer with up to 38,000 veterans' records was missing from the office of a subcontractor working for the Department of Veterans Affairs, the second computer to disappear from that agency this year.

posted by Fergie @ 8/09/2006 03:24:00 PM