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.

The alleged takeover of the City by the Bay may sound totally rare, but, unfortunately, it has happened before that disgruntled employees take to modern technology as a means for revenge.

City tech employee Terry Childs, allegedly modified the city system so that he was the only one with top level clearances. The city is still in a tizzy trying to regain control of their new fiber optic municipal network that handles everything from the mayor’s email to electronic court records. Childs, who was arrested on Sunday, is still being held on $5 million bail, after allegedly refusing to hand over the passwords. He at first did supply some, but they turned out to be bogus.

It isn’t even clear why he did what he did, although it’s been said that in days leading up to his arrest, his behavior towards his colleagues was becoming erratic. A new security chief had been brought in to oversee the group’s security, and over the past few weeks some evidence of tampering had been found. It was escalated to the police, who in turn brought in their own forensics team to investigate their network.