DHS Employees Sue TSA over Lost Hard Drive
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2129790,00.asp
The American Federation of Government Employees
is suing the Transportation Security Administration
after the TSA lost a hard drive containing employment
records for some 100,000 individuals.
The union represents employees throughout the
Department of Homeland Security, including the TSA.
Its class action lawsuit, filed within a day of the
TSA announcing the missing hard drive, calls the
loss of data a breach of the Privacy Act.
The hard drive, which the agency announced was missing
on May 7, contains names, Social Security numbers,
dates of birth, and payroll and bank account information.
The drive was discovered missing from a controlled area
at the TSA headquarters' Office of Human Capital.
As of last week, the agency still hadn't figured out
if the drive is still somewhere within headquarters
or in the hands of a thief.
TSA has begun to notify the affected individuals and
is providing them with information about how to protect
against identity fraud. The agency is also working out
a process to purchase credit monitoring services for
affected employees for one year.
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