Verified Identity Pass Confirms It Has Found Laptop It Reported Missing; Preliminary...

Verified Identity Pass Confirms It Has Found Laptop It Reported Missing;
Preliminary Investigation Indicates No Information Compromised

NEW YORK, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Verified Identity Pass, Inc. today
confirmed that it recovered the laptop from its office at the San Francisco
Airport that it had reported missing to authorities and the Transportation
Security Administration. Moreover, Verified Identity Pass has determined
from a preliminary investigation that the laptop was not accessed from the
time it went missing in the office until the time it was found. Further
forensic investigation is being conducted by law enforcement officials.
"We apologize for the confusion but in an abundance of caution, we treated
this unaccounted-for laptop as a serious potential breach. We're glad to
confirm that a preliminary investigation shows no personal information was
compromised," said Verified Identity Pass CEO Steven Brill. Verified Identity
Pass had earlier reported that it was in the process of notifying 33,000
people -- most of whom had signed up online but not yet completed their
in-person enrollments, plus a small portion of members who were in the process
of having to re-enroll because there had been trouble collecting their
biometrics -- that a laptop containing a limited portion of the personally
identifiable information that they submit to begin an application was stolen
from a locked office at the San Francisco Airport. That notification will now
include the finding that the laptop has been found and that no one attempted
to access that information, let alone obtained it.
Verified Identity Pass had also announced that it was suspending
enrollment processes temporarily until this information was encrypted for
further protection. All airport lane operations have continued as normal. The
information on the laptop had already been secured by two levels of password
protection. Verified Identity Pass, Inc. is in the process of completing that
software fix -- and other laptop security enhancements -- to encrypt the data.
Verified now expects that the fix will be in place within days.
The data in question on the laptop included a limited amount of the online
applicant's personal information, but did not include any credit information,
including credit card numbers. And it did not include the applicant's Social
Security number. It also did not include any biometric information, such as
the applicant's encrypted fingerprint images or encrypted iris images (which
are supplied during the second, in-person enrollment process that takes place
at the airport).
SOURCE Verified Identity Pass, Inc.

Allison Beer, Verified Identity Pass, Inc., +1-212-332-6312,
abeer@verifiedidpass.com