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Audits find data security lapses at L.A. County agencies

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Dissent

Ouch.

Abby Sewell reports:

Security lapses in several departments of Los Angeles County government put residents’ medical information, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information at risk of being stolen, three recent audits have found.

Probation, Public Health and Public Social Services, which dispenses welfare benefits, failed to deactivate computer login codes for hundreds of former employees who had left their jobs for one reason or another, the audits found.

In some cases, staff members simply lost track of computers or failed to report equipment that had gone missing. And in all three departments, auditors found some computers that were not protected by encryption software required by county policy.

Read more on Los Angeles Times.

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