“Data Breach” or “Theft”?

A recent hearing of the House Science Committee's Oversight Subcommittee looks at a "data breach" involving eight FDIC former employers, one of which took private personal information of about 160,000 citizens with her when she left the FDIC and went to work for a foreign financial institution. Then she resisted returning the information. The FDIC claims, in that particular case, the employee was not computer proficient and accidently downloaded the information when she downloaded her “resume or personal photos” from her government computer. Why would a person with such little knowledge of computers have such information on her computer in the first place? Mr. Lawrence Gross, Jr. is the Chief Information Officer and Chief Privacy Officer for the FDIC and Mr. Fred Gipson is the Acting FDIC Inspector General

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