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MA: SSNs, addresses inadvertently posted on Walpole Police Dept.’s website

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Dissent

WFXT reports:

Social security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and other personal information was accidentally posted on Walpole Police Department‘s website.

The personal information was part of last week’s dispatch log. The dispatch log contains a record of all incidents officer responded to, and that includes all of the personal information that is redacted from the press log. The dispatch log was inadvertently posted online and given to the Walpole Times.

Read more on Fox25.


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