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NY Lawmakers Angry At DiNapoli Over Privacy Breach

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Dissent

Okay, so this may not be a good time to call Comptroller DiNapoli’s office to find out whatever happened to the K-12 data security audits they had told me they would be conducting last year.  Ken Lovett reports:

State Controller Thomas DiNapoli is taking major heat for the office blunder that led to the Social Security numbers of hundreds of state lawmakers and staff members being posted online.

“No one is happy,” groused a source close to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a close ally of DiNapoli, whose office mistakenly included the personal info in a database to be published by a news site.

A second legislative source said lawmakers are “furious” that they were left open to potential identity theft by the PR fumble. The source, a legislative aide, questioned why DiNapoli’s press shop had access to the information in the first place. “Is the sloppy way in which this was handled indicative of how he runs his entire office?” the source asked.

The foulup affected 319 lawmakers and staff, as the Daily News reported Saturday. A DiNapoli spokeswoman said the Social Security numbers were listed in a hidden tab of a computerized spreadsheet listing the daily travel expenses of lawmakers.

Read more in the NY Daily News.

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