| The IRS has announced that an employee
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| | advised as to identy theft
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| lost an agency laptop early last month
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| | precautions.The department of Veterans
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| that contained personal information for
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| | Affairs suffered a much larger data loss
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| 291 workers and job applicants.The
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| | last month when thieves stole a laptop
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| employee apparently checked the laptop as
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| | and hard drive from a VA data analyst's
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| luggage aboard a commercial flight while
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| | home that contained personal information
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| traveling to a job fair and never saw it
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| | for 26.5 million veterans and active
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| again, according to Terry L. Lemons of
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| | military members.IRS employees are
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| the IRS.The computer contained
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| | worried, according to Colleen M. Kelley,
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| unencrypted names, birth dates, Social
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| | president of the National Treasury
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| Security numbers and fingerprints for
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| | Employees Union."The first thing that
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| both employees and applicants. Only
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| | comes to mind is identity theft and why
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| approximately 100 of the people on the
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| | care and caution wasn't taken to encrypt
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| computer were IRS employees.Lemons says
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| | their data," she said. "They are taking
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| that the computer held no tax return
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| | this seriously and I would expect to see
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| information."The data was not encrypted,
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| | some changes in policy and procedures in
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| but it was protected by a double-password
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| | the future."Martin Lukac ( represents
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| system," he explained. "To get into this
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| | and a finance web-company specializing
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| personal data on there, you would have to
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| | in real estate/mortgage market. We
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| have two separate passwords."The Treasury
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| | specialize in daily updates, rate
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| Department's inspector general for tax
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| | predictions, mortgage rates and more.
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| administration is investigating the loss,
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| | Find low home loan mortgage interest
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| according to the IRS. All affected
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| | rates from hundreds of mortgage
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| individuals are being notified and
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| | companies!
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