Holy flippin WOW is this bad. We have seen time and again lately where companies have lost personal data of their customers. This latest one is something else. Apparently the IRS lost a laptop with personal information on 291 employees of the Internal Revenue Service…and their FINGERPRINTS. Um, yeah, you know what? That’s not good.
“Right now the laptop is classified as missing. We don’t know if it was stolen,” Lemon said.Nothing on the computer would put taxpayer information at risk, Lemon said. The fingerprints and other data could be not used to falsify an IRS ID badge, he said. The matter has been turned over the to IRS inspector general’s office.
“Our taxpayer data is on completely different systems,” he said. “No taxpayer data is involved.”
OK, that may be true, minus the 291 employees but, that would effectively give a malicious type the information they would need to possibly access IRS systems. A little ingenuity and some gummy bears and the could be in business.
Tags: IRS, Data Theft, Stolen laptop, Lost laptop, Indentity Theft
