WASHINGTON - A U.S. government computer loaded with approximately 133,000 drivers' and pilots' records — including Social Security numbers — was stolen last month, the Department of Transportation said Wednesday.
The department's Office of Inspector General said one of its laptops was taken from a government vehicle in Doral, Florida, on July 27. The agency is sending letters to those whose information may have been compromised.
The theft follows the revelation this week that a computer with up to 38,000 veterans' records was missing from the office of a subcontractor working for the Department of Veterans Affairs, the second computer to disappear from that agency this year.
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When are they going to let us block our credit files permanently, regardless of whether we've been a target of fraud or not? This is the fifth database stolen that may have contained my name.
The department's Office of Inspector General said one of its laptops was taken from a government vehicle in Doral, Florida, on July 27. The agency is sending letters to those whose information may have been compromised.
The theft follows the revelation this week that a computer with up to 38,000 veterans' records was missing from the office of a subcontractor working for the Department of Veterans Affairs, the second computer to disappear from that agency this year.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14273203/
When are they going to let us block our credit files permanently, regardless of whether we've been a target of fraud or not? This is the fifth database stolen that may have contained my name.
