Union Files Suit Against TSA for Data Breach

Via FCW.com -

The American Federation of Government Employees filed a class-action lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration for the loss or theft from headquarters of a portable hard drive that contained 100,000 payroll records of current and former employees.

AFGE, which represents about 4,000 of TSA’s 43,000 current employees, filed the suit May 8 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The federal employee union said the agency, part of the Homeland Security Department, failed to establish adequate safeguards to ensure the security and confidentiality of personnel records under the Privacy and the Aviation and Transportation Security acts.

“TSA must be held liable for this wanton disregard for employee privacy,” AFGE National President John Gage said.