Last week we had a post titled "Secure the Mobile devices", In which we discussed the theft of a laptop of an MCI employee and the loss of financial information that was on the same. Now we have news that another laptop with credit card information of 80000 US Department of Justice Workers was stolen.

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Gina Talamona, a DOJ spokeswoman, said the laptop was stolen between May 7 and May 9 from the Fairfax, Va., headquarters of Omega World Travel, a travel agency used by the DOJ for its employees.

The computer did not contain employees' personal information, such as home addresses, office addresses or Social Security numbers, Talamona said. All the data was password-protected to prevent unauthorized access.

"We don't provide to Omega the kind of information that's typically used for identity theft," she said.

The credit cards were issued by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and by Bank One Corp., she said, and since the theft occurred, there have been "no indications that there has been any [unauthorized] activity on the cards."

The DOJ did not cancel all of the credit cards immediately because many DOJ workers are traveling and would be affected by a mass cancellation during their trips, Talamona said. The agency is working with affected workers to determine how best to protect their accounts, she said.

Source: ComputerWorldPrashanth RaiTags: Security, Mobile