Commerce Department loses 1,137 laptops

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060922/ap_on_go_ot/missing_laptops

WASHINGTON - The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 laptop computers since 2001, most of them assigned to theCensus Bureau, officials said Thursday night.

The Census Bureau, the main collector of information about Americans, lost 672 computers. Of those, 246 contained some personal data, the department said in a statement. However, no personal information from any of the missing computers has been known to have been improperly used, the department said.

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The Veterans Affairs Department suffered the biggest loss with the theft in May of a laptop and external drive containing information for 26.5 million veterans and active-duty troops. Burglars stole the equipment from the home of a Veterans Affairs employee, but the computer was later recovered and showed no signs of having been accessed for the personal data.

Other government departments reporting the loss of computers with personal information include the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services and Transportation. The Federal Trade Commission also has lost laptops with sensitive data.

I bet they actually lost about 137, and manufactured about 1000 laptop procurements that were never actually delivered. That would be about a million bucks or so they could get kicked back to them in part from the contractor.

Gotta think like a gangster to understand these guys nowdays!

a laptop I could lose.

Commerce Department employees children now have a free laptop to use at college?

Sure, these were all innocent mistakes. Just like during the last 3 elections, on 9/11 and when we went to war with Iraq.