One agent of the department of aging has his laptop stolen from a locked car, included flash drive and paper files. The department has stated that there is probably lost of social security numbers for at least 100 people that are part of senior Care Act program. The department thought that other 7,000 senior citizens might be at risk because other personal items have disappeared too. Some people have been contacted by phone and other by letters. The stolen items are full customer names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, gender, Medicaid identification numbers, telephone numbers. What lesson can we draw from this? I think if you know the data on your computer is very important and critical, the first protection is to encrypt the computer and the data, because this incident can happen anytime.
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