Monica Vaughan reports:
Private personal information of potentially thousands of people was unintentionally available on public access computers in the Sutter County Superior Courthouse on Monday.
The data breach occurred when a new case management system went live Monday morning. The system was taken down the same afternoon after an Appeal-Democrat reporter alerted Court Executive Officer Stephanie Hansel that sensitive and private information was viewable to the public.
For about six hours, anyone who searched for a criminal or traffic case on public access computers could view the defendant’s Social Security number, birthday, driver’s license number and home address. State court rules clearly say such data should be redacted by court clerks for the protection of privacy.
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