Shan Li reports:
The Securities and Exchange Commission is having some security problems.
About 4,000 agency employees, including several in Los Angeles, have been notified that their social security numbers and other payroll information were included accidentally in an unencrypted email, said Drew Malcomb, an Interior Department spokesman.
The May 4 email was sent by a contractor at the Interior Department’s National Business Center, a service center in charge of payroll, human resources and financial reporting for dozens of federal agencies, Malcomb said.
The contractor forgot to encrypt the email, and the software in place to catch such errors also failed and let the email through, he said.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.