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Old Dec 24, 2010, 4:46 am
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"Massachusetts man pleads guilty to selling and using TSA employees’ identities"

Tripped over this one, this morning:

http://www.databreaches.net/?p=15912

Co-conspirator White’s customers included relatives and friends of state prison inmates who sought to open telephone accounts using the TSA identities in order to, among other things, circumvent prison telephone usage rules. Derring obtained the names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of employees who worked for TSA at Logan Airport from a relative who worked as a contractor at TSA’s department of human resources.

Humans always are the weakest link in data security...
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