Ross McLaughlin reports:
11Alive’s Center for Investigative Action went undercover to expose how a state agency that you trust to protect your personal information is putting people at risk for identity theft.
Your private information, available for anyone to see — tax returns, Social Security numbers, you name it. It may not have been intentional, but it needed to be fixed.
“It was a little disconcerting that my complete tax returns were on the computer,” said Michelle Hogan.
Hogan alerted 11Alive News to it, after going to a DDS center in Marietta to get her son’s driver’s permit. She needed to use the public computer to access her account in order to print out her tax return to prove he was a dependent.
“Tried to delete it and wasn’t able to off of the computer,” she said.
She told 11Alive that a supervisor wasn’t much help either, and that’s why she contacted us.
We went in with a hidden camera and discovered all kinds of private and personal information on the computer for all to see.
Read more on 13WMAZ. They actually got DDS to issue and tell them a corrective action plan.