Security Breached At SFO Due To Stolen Laptop

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / KCBS) ― The company that runs the Clear system, which speeds customers through airport screenings, has been prevented from enrolling new customers by the T.S.A. after a security breach affecting some 33,000 customers.

Verified Identity System's Clear program allows passengers to scan their smart cards at a kiosk for a speedier security screening. T.S.A. spokesperson Ann Davis told CBS an unencrypted computer storing the personal information on the cards went missing from SFO on July 26th.

Davis said VIP is a privately run company that the airport provides with background checks of enrolled customers. Now the company must suspend new enrollments, notify affected customers, and secures computers until they can install encryption.

Current Clear customers will still be able to use their cards while the breach is sorted out.

Source: http://cbs5.com/local/tsa.security.clear.2.788083.html (that's the entire blurb)

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Ah, the best security money can buy.... :sarcasm:

This sounded like Bush Cronyism at is best to me. I figured this private Verified Identity Systems was some Guliani security company or something.

Based on my research, the CEO is Steven Brill the founder of CourtTV and American Lawyer magazine. Based on his campaign contributions he is a pretty strong Democrat. He recently donated $28,500 to ActBlue from his VIP company and personally to Obama.

The fact that a so called security company would allow this unencrypted laptops to be used at all is absurd. Not to mention that the TSA should have mandated encrypted for this valuable data.