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Corrections, IDOT latest to suffer losses of personal information
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:56:11 -0400
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/15631910.htm SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - More than a year after state agencies were caught throwing sensitive documents into the trash, two Illinois agencies admit they recently mishandled personal information about their employees. The Corrections Department said its information breach involved "virtually all" of its 13,500 employees but would provide no details. The Department of Transportation said its problem involved only about 40 workers and the documents never left the building. [...] In a letter dated Sept. 12, Corrections Director Roger Walker told Senate President Emil Jones and House Speaker Michael Madigan that a payroll report supplied by the Department of Human Services containing the names, salaries, and Social Security numbers of most department employees "was found at an outside location, where it should not have been." [...] At the Transportation Department, state auditors found documents in hallway recycling bins that included the names of about 40 people and their Social Security numbers, spokesman Matt Vanover said. "The documents never left the building and were not accessed" by outsiders, Vanover said. No state audit has yet been released that addresses the incident. The agency knows who's responsible for the disposal but feels no disciplinary action is necessary, he added. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that after that disposal, IDOT lawyer Ellen Schanzle-Haskins sent a memo alerting the affected employees. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 136 million compromised records in 375 incidents over 6 years.
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