Identity Issues at TSA
Wednesday May 9, 2007
You see the airport screeners at airports throughout the United States, waving their security wands and perhaps having you remove your shoes as you go through airport security. But now some of those same employees may have had their security breached.
Seems that a database containing information about tens of thousands of TSA employees has gone missing. It is not certain as to whether the missing hard drive was lost within the agency or stolen.
In an age of growing identity theft, this could be a scary possibility for those who had their information stored on the missing external hard drive.
From the TSA - TSA Statement on Employee Data Security Incident
Let us HOPE that the TSA hard drive was stolen. Then it is a secuirty problem that can be fixed. If it was lost, what does that say about the security of thousands of americans who board planes everyday depending on TSA competancy.
Let us HOPE that the TSA hard drive was stolen. Then it is a secuirty problem that can be fixed. If it was lost, what does that say about the security of thousands of americans who board planes everyday depending on TSA competancy.
It does not matter what is okay’ed on the TSA list. If the TSA thieves want items DESTROY. They put chosen items in their pockets – no cans available. Self addressed/postage envelope to send home. He took badge off & told me he would make me miss my flight. Threatened no fly list.