Pasadena attorney Dan Stormer, left, speaks about a NASA employee information security breach with JPL workers Josette Bellan and Rob Haw at a press conference in his Pasadena office. A NASA laptop was stolen Oct. 31 from an employee's vehicle in Washington D.C. and the agency informed employees two weeks later that their personal information was at risk. (Photo by Raul Roa, Pasadena Sun)
By Tiffany Kelly
Pasadena Sun.
Pasadena Sun.
Workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are asking for a congressional investigation into the agency's data security efforts after learning the theft of a laptop and documents last month may have compromised information for 10,000 NASA employees.
The incident is the latest in a series of skirmishes over NASA's employee background checks.
On Oct. 31, a NASA laptop and documents were stolen from an employee's locked vehicle on a Washington, D.C., street. A few weeks later, workers at JPL and elsewhere received letters from the agency stating that personal information gathered in NASA background checks, including home addresses and Social Security numbers, was at risk.
