The government agency charged with fighting identity theft said Thursday it had lost two government laptops containing sensitive personal data, the latest in a series of breaches encompassing millions of people.
The Federal Trade Commission said it would provide free credit monitoring for 110 people targeted for investigation whose names, addresses, Social Security numbers - and in some instances, financial account numbers - were taken from an FTC attorney's locked car.
Duh! When are agencies going to realize that our personal data should not be taken out of agency's offices? The data should not be on any portable computer (laptops, notebooks, etc.). How many times do they, and private companies, have to be hit over the head with a 2-by-4 before they get it?!
Private personal data belongs only on highly secure servers that can be accessed only from equally secure desktop workstations at the office, period. This data should never be allowed to be copied to the workstation nor portable computer.
Inconvenience is not a reason to put your personal data at risk!
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