Patricia Daddona reports:
An audit of a 2007 data breach of state taxpayer’s personal information on a stolen laptop shows the state took too long to address the situation but has since made strides to prevent future incidents.
Two years ago, some 106,000 Connecticut taxpayers’ names and Social Security numbers were compromised when an employee, now identified as Jason Purslow of the Department of Revenue Services, the state’s tax-collection agency, left a laptop computer in a parked car on Long Island.
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