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GA: Forsyth County investigates information breach

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Dissent

Mark Woolsey reports:

A security breach at the Forsyth County Tax Commissioners office led to the inadvertent release Social Security numbers of nearly 20,000 residents.

Tax commissioner Matthew Ledbetter said in a letter to those impacted that the information was mistakenly included in a data file downloaded by two outside parties. Both had authorized access to county tax digest information through a password-protected FTP web portal. Both told the county of the breach, said they hadn’t used the Social Security numbers and deleted the file.

County spokeswoman Jodi Gardner says 19,793 taxpayers were impacted and that disciplinary action’s been taken against the person who released the data.

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