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Katy ISD staff info, including Social Security numbers, released

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Dissent

KTRK reports:

Katy ISD said the birth dates and Social Security numbers of its employees were “inadvertently” released.

[…]

According to officials, the information was sent out in response to a routine request for an employee list.

Read more on ABC13.

This is not the first breach involving employees’ personal information, although in a bigger case, it was an IRS employee who lost a flash drive with 11,000 employees’ information.


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  • IRS "Get Transcript" breach much bigger than first thought - now more than 700K victims
  • TX: IRS employee loses flash drive with 11,000 Katy Independent School District employees' SSN
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