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Ohio recalls voter registration CDs; SSNs included
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:23:46 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110983,00.html?source=x73 News Story by Todd R. Weiss APRIL 28, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The Social Security numbers of potentially millions of registered voters in Ohio were included on CD-ROMs distributed to some 20 political campaign operations in recent months as campaigns geared up for spring primary election races. The problem was discovered Tuesday when one of the political campaigns contacted the Ohio secretary of state.s office to say that the personal data was on the discs, even though it wasn.t requested, said James Lee, a spokesman for Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell. All of the political organizations that received the CDs were immediately contacted and have agreed to return the discs for replacements that won.t include the Social Security numbers, Lee said. The records of about 7.7 million registered voters in Ohio are listed on the CDs, but Lee said he didn't know how many voter records included Social Security numbers. The records show what elections a voter participated in since 2002, along with their names and addresses. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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