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Los Alamos warns workers about identity theft
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:38:20 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/60494.html Los Alamos National Laboratory warned employees about protecting themselves against identity theft after the names and Social Security numbers of 550 lab workers were posted on a Web site run by a subcontractor working on a security system. An April 5 letter to the employees from Jan A. Van Prooyen, the lab's acting deputy director, said the problem was discovered the previous week when a lab employee happened upon the Web site of a software services company that had been hired years before. Clicking a link and entering a password provided online led to a table that included names, and in some cases, Social Security numbers, of people who entered certain lab sites around 1998, the letter said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 207 million compromised records in 630 incidents over 7 years.
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