"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...

thats pretty solid :(

What do you call subjecting TSA Employees to identity theft?

A good start.

I feel sorry for the poor schlubs who might buy these identities, unaware that by using them they'll end up being thought of as TSA employees. ;)

Agreed. There is actually someone who wants to be considered TSA?

I'd rather have a few arrests on my record than have to tell people I'm one of the perverts that work for the TSA.

Al Queda?

The appropriate response to this leak is a complete revetting of all the employees involved and reissuing all id's and photos with a biometric version, plus full screening with the NOS of all air-side BOS TSA workers for the next 3 years. Since this is a security breach, another agency like the FBI or Boston PD should do the screening. All the TSA workers should also get free credit monitoring for the next 3 years too. (The government can attempt cost recovery for this from the perpetrator)

Remember this as screeners demand your personal information at the checkpoint for opting-out or ending up in a "resolution" pat-down.

One more very good reasons why they should NOT collect personal information.

They have spent way too much money on strip search machines, Genital Groping 1.01 training, public affairs and propaganda media blitzes, and SPOTNiks to have any budget left over to do a re-vetting and 100% rebadging of all of their employees. And, for the first time in the history of the TSA, they would be forced to respond to a real emerging threat.

Aren't there some employment sectors where the employee is required to pay for their own 'clearances' i.e. getting bonded? Teachers & Doctors have a requirement for continuing education that they foot the bill for too. But knowing the government, they'll just add another fee to the ticket.

Now yer gonna make me cry!:(

Yes, he could be very serious charges for that. He could go to prisons for rest of the life! :mad:

The telephone system will be blocked and disconnected the phone in prisons.