ID Theft: Are your records safe?
The recent scandal involving the theft of personal information on 26.5 million veterans from a VA employee’s laptop should be a wake up call for the Postal Service and other agencies which have similar holes in their computer security practices.
The most glaring problem is the continued use of Social Security numbers as identifiers in employee files that are accessible to large numbers of agency employees. While agencies may have policies prohibiting downloading the type of data involved in the VA case, most don’t have the kind of safeguards that would actually prevent someone from doing just that.
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May 27th, 2006 08:09
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February 4th, 2007 23:42
Postal Computer Security! Where? While at my computer my A/Plant Manager came to me to instruct me to change PFP ratings so I opened MY program access to show him that I was not able to reaccess the ratings once they had been submitted. I was then called out to the workroom floor and returned within a minute to find the A/Plant Manager behind my desk making changes in my PFP system. Some security when you can’t trust your ‘boss’ to not violate the system!