Thumbnail Drive with Data of Job Seekers Lost
A company hired by the Nevada Department of Public Safety to do background checks for 109 job applicants managed to loose the private data of said job seekers. According to an article in Chron.com, their private records were stored on a thumbnail drive owned by one of the hired firm employees.
Following this incident, the Department of Public Safety has temporarily suspended the use of outside vendors for background checks while it is reviewing all its processes and procedure.
