Security Breached At SFO Due To Stolen Laptop
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / KCBS) ― The Transportation Security Administration says a laptop containing the sensitive personal information of 33,000 applicants to an airport security prescreening program has gone missing.
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, but the agency was not notified until Sunday.
The TSA has suspended new enrollments in the program, known as Clear, which allows passengers to pay to use special "fast lanes" at airport security checkpoints.
The laptop belonged to a privately run company known as Verified Identity Pass Inc., which operates the program at 17 airports nationwide.
An agency spokesman says the company must notify all affected applicants and show it has installed encryption on all its computers before it can restart enrollments.
Current Clear customers will still be able to use their cards while the breach is sorted out.
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