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DHS Loses Personal Data on 900 Employees

Alex Pulaski writes on The Oregonian:

Federal Homeland Security officials in Portland are trying to find a lost computer storage device that may have held personal information on more than 900 current and former employees.

The device, called a ThumbDrive, turned up missing Oct. 16 at the Transportation Security Administration's command center at Portland International Airport. The agency, born after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has about 500 employees statewide who oversee airport security checkpoints.

Mike Irwin, federal security director at PDX, said the agency had spent the past several days trying to determine what information was on the drive and where it had gone.

posted by Fergie @ 10/26/2006 01:58:00 PM