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Clear losses, later finds laptop with with 33,000 applicants data
Clear, a company that is in existence to cater to frequent travelers who are willing to give up quite a bit of personal information and pay $100 per year to be able to fast pass those long security lines recently had a nice security scare. One that we can only hope will teach them a good lesson in security.
Clear had recently reported a laptop stolen at the San Francisco Airport, what sounds like a common occurrence in today’s world where it seems just about everyone has a laptop, except this one in particular had the personal information for 33,000 applicants and to make matters worse, the data was not in any way encrypted.
Best Buy losses laptop, customer sues for $54 million
Best Buy customer Raelyn Campbell has filed a $54 million dollar lawsuit for the loss of her laptop. The story starts out innocent enough, Raelyn had purchased a laptop along with an extended warranty from Best Buy, after a while the laptops power switch broke and she had thought that warranty would prove to be useful. That is where it began to go downhill, originally told the repairs would take roughly two to six weeks it ended up going much longer. After several months it was determined that the laptop had never left the store and to make matters worse the laptop had been stolen, not to mention Best Buy had lied to her about the status for months.















