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OK: City loses disk of account info

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Dissent

Keith Purtell  reports:

Officials at the city of Muskogee recently discovered that a computer “zip” disk containing personal information has been in public circulation since 2000.

The citizen who found the disk noticed the official city label and returned it.

Late Friday afternoon, the city issued a press release saying they had discovered a “possible breach of utility billing information” on about 4,500 utility accounts that were closed prior to August 2000.

[…]

Although the disk contained Social Security numbers for some of the account holders, the press release said officials don’t believe the information has been used to harm anyone.

Read more in Muskogee Phoenix

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