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County Mistakenly Posts Personal Taxpayer Info Online
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:10:55 -0500 (EST)
http://www.wral.com/news/10407868/detail.html SMITHFIELD, N.C. -- Johnston County officials recently posted personal information for thousands of residents, including Social Security numbers, on the county Web site by mistake. A resident discovered the information by searching his own address on the Google search engine. In addition to seeing his own Social Security number online, the man, who wanted to remain anonymous, said he found another man's name, address, Social Security number and information that he was retired. When the man clicked on a link, he said it took him to the Johnston County Web site, where tax office files contained thousands of other names and identifying information. "That contains more information that folks would want out there -- cell phone numbers, in some cases I think, Social Security numbers," County Manager Rick Hester said, adding that the information was taken off the county Web site within an hour of officials learning about it. County technology officials said the names are part of an annual list the tax office puts together for financial institutions. The personal information ended up in the file by mistake and might have been online for five or six weeks, officials said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 142 million compromised records in 490 incidents over 6 years.
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