Another Stolen Records Story

I've posted before, but can't find it, about how every organisation, company and government agency should give strict orders that no one's personal information is to be taken home on a laptop. If the info is needed for work at home, it should be put on a thumb drive or other removable storage device and never left with the laptop.

First the Department of Veteran Affairs. Now the Federal Trade commission. Laptops from government agencies are a hot item.

The agency today said two FTC attorneys' laptops containing the personal information of 110 people were stolen from a locked vehicle last week.

The theft was announced one month after a laptop containing the personal information from millions of veterans was stolen from an employee of the Department of Veteran Affairs.

The FTC laptops included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and financial account numbers gathered in law enforcement investigations for defendants in current and past FTC cases.

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