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Boston Water and Sewer Commission warns of possible customer info leak

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Dissent

WCVB reports:

Boston Water and Sewer Commission officials said customer information could have been leaked due to a missing hard drive. Officials said contractor Aclara Technologies notified them that a hard drive that could contain the Commission’s water and sewer account information is missing.

Aclara was using the information to update the Commission’s remote meter reading system, according to Commission news release.

At most, the missing hard drive contains customer names, addresses, phone numbers, account and meter numbers and other information that is otherwise publicly available, according to the release.

Read more on WCVB.

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