IRS to encrypt all laptops after scare

December 31, 2007
By BritneyIIII

Audit unearthed disaster-in-the-making.

“What the report showed, which was correct, was that we weren’t taking the proper steps to protect some laptops,” Everson said. “We’ve worked to encrypt all of the laptops and that’s just about done. We’ve got a couple dozen more we’ve got to finish up in the next few weeks.”

Auditors tested 100 laptop computers used by IRS employees and found that 44 of them contained “unencrypted sensitive data, including taxpayer data and employee personnel data.”

The audit was conducted by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. It also determined that nearly 500 IRS laptops went missing between Jan. 2, 2003 and June 13, 2006.

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