FMCSA laptop stolen from a government vehicle in Baltimore

[Al Mac <macwheel99 () sigecom net>]

This is a separate story from the SLASHDOT discussion of Baltimore Police 
not able to recover a stolen laptop programmed to call home to identify 
where it ended up, in the hands of a Verizon customer, after being stolen.

The people affected in this latest Baltimore laptop story are some with 
commercial driver's licenses from Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, 
Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, 
Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia and Washington, D.C.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, part of the Department of 
Transportation, said a the laptop was stolen Tuesday from a 
government-owned vehicle, and was reported to Baltimore police.

FMCSA said the computer might contain names, dates of birth and commercial 
driver's license numbers of 193 people from 40 motor carrier companies. It 
does not contain financial or medical information, the agency said.

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http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/9741267/detail.html


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