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.