Elizabeth Dobbins reports:
City officials discovered last month the Social Security numbers of 1,800 state residents were released in a breach of city records three and a half years ago, according to a report filed with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation.
“There was an unauthorized access of information that was held by the city of Fitchburg,” Fitchburg City Solicitor Vincent Pusateri said.
Pusateri said the residents affected were notified by letter after the breach was discovered on April 14 of this year.
Read more on Sentinel and Enterprise, but spoiler alert: they don’t really know for sure how the breach occurred at the time.