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Oregon - State says taxpayer files may have been compromised
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:57:41 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8I7JI4G0.html 06/13/2006 Associated Press Electronic files containing personal data of up to 2,200 Oregon taxpayers may have been compromised by an ex-employee's unauthorized use of a computer, the Oregon Department of Revenue said Tuesday. Amy McLaughlin, an information technology security officer with the state, said the incident apparently occurred when an employee downloaded a contaminated file from a porn site. The "trojan" attached to the file may have sent taxpayer information back to the source when the computer was turned on. "We're not 100 percent certain they were received by anyone," said department spokeswoman Rosemary Hardin. Hardin said the released data likely involved names or addresses or Social Security numbers, or possibly in some cases all three. It's unclear if it was damaging but said some of the data may have gotten back to the porn site. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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