I just heard that a second government laptop has been stolen. The first was a laptop of a Veterans Administration employee, who had taken home personal data on his computer without authorization. The fear was that the data would be sold, but I think the computer was recovered.
Now a DoT computer has been stolen out of a government car. It also has personal data of many different drivers on it.
My thought is that all the press given to the first case prompted someone to steal a laptop with the specific goal of selling the info on it.
I guess this brings up the question of how much press is too much. On the one hand, it was important to inform the public about the theft so that potential identity theft victims could take the proper action. On the other hand, there was so much press that it probably gave a lot of otherwise uninformed thieves the information needed to plan to steal a laptop for this purpose.
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