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TSA Statement on Employee Data Security Incident
WASHINGTON, May 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yesterday the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) became aware of a potential
data security incident involving approximately 100,000 archived employment
records of individuals employed by the agency from January 2002 until
August 2005. An external hard drive containing personnel data (including
name, social security number, date of birth, payroll information, bank
account and routing information) was discovered missing from a controlled
area at the TSA Headquarters Office of Human Capital. It is unclear at this
stage whether the device is still within headquarters or was stolen. TSA
immediately reported the incident to senior DHS and law enforcement
officials and launched an investigation.
TSA is treating this incident as a criminal matter and has asked the
FBI to investigate. The U.S. Secret Service is also assisting in the
forensic review of equipment and facilities. TSA is cooperating fully.
TSA has begun to notify directly all affected individuals and provide
them with information about how to protect against identity fraud. As an
extra safeguard, TSA is developing a process to purchase credit monitoring
services for all affected current and former employees for a period of one
year, as necessary. Procedures for claiming this benefit, links to the
credit reporting agencies and other information is available at
http://www.tsa.gov.
TSA has extensive data protections protocols and training in place for
its employees regarding data privacy. TSA has zero tolerance for employees
not following policies on data protection and will take swift disciplinary
action, including dismissal, against individuals found to be in violation
of our procedures.
Media Contact: TSA Public Affairs
(571) 227-2829
SOURCE Transportation Security Administration
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