Stolen DHS laptop may put IDs at risk

The Department of Human Services in Lane County is trying to contact people in their database after a laptop computer containing personal information of about 3,000 people was stolen.

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Richardk - 12/23/2011 9:38 AM
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The first crime here is not the theft of the laptop, but a failure in proper data administration. What I want to know is, why on earth is confidential data stored on local hard disks, unencrypted, instead of being on secure department servers. With the level of connectivity available today there is no reason to have anything local but the OS and applications.
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