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OH: Error circulates state workers’ bank data

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Dissent

Alan Johnson reports: Personal banking information for 6,000 state employees, including Gov. Ted Strickland, was inadvertently included in a Jan. 27 e-mail distributed to dozens of payroll officers of state agencies. Republicans are calling it a security breach, but the Strickland administration says it was simply a mistake that posed little, if any, risk. “This…

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(update) Ceridian computer glitch may have helped hacker

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Dissent

Steve Alexander reports: The hacker who stole information about 27,000 people from payroll processor Ceridian Corp. apparently had some inadvertent help from the company. According to one hacking victim, a Ceridian employee told him that his inactive, 10-year-old payroll data had been stolen because a Ceridian software glitch kept it in the company’s database long…

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(follow-up) Federal Office Offers $50,000 Reward for Missing External Drive

Posted on February 6, 2010 by Dissent

Hilton Collins reports: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is still on the lookout for a missing external drive containing copies of personal data — including Social Security numbers — of former Bill Clinton administration staffers and people who contacted or visited the White House during the Clinton era. One of former Vice President…

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WY: Kid Care CHIP Client Information Exposed Online

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Dissent

The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) announced today an error has lead to potential online exposure of personal information provided by clients and applicants of the Wyoming Kid Care CHIP program. WDH Information Technology was notified Thursday that personal information of Kid Care clients was improperly appearing in Google search results. Thirty seconds upon receiving…

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TX: Woman sentenced to 34 years over Irving ISD ID theft

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Dissent

As a follow-up to a case previously covered on this site where Irving ISD employees became victims of ID theft after paper records with their personal information was tossed out, unshredded, the Associated Press now reports that Sharon Denise Seeley pleaded guilty and was sentenced for her role in the scam. Seeley was sentenced to…

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NY: Social Security loses a CD with personal info

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Dissent

Peter C. Mastrosimone reports: A computer disc containing detailed personal information about 969 New Yorkers was lost by a Social Security Administration employee traveling to Queens from the Bronx back in late October. Three months later, on Jan. 22, the agency sent out letters to those people, explaining the situation and assuring them that officials…

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