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(update) Fed breach leaks Social Security numbers
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:18:23 +0000 (UTC)
(first 30K, then 150K, now 63K... hope everybody has erasers handy...) http://origin.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_5714663 The Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received Agriculture Department grants have been posted on a government Web site since 1996, but they were taken down last week. Free credit monitoring is being offered to those affected. The security breach was only noticed last week and promptly closed, the Agriculture Department and Census Bureau announced Friday. The Agriculture data that included Social Security numbers were removed from the Web on April 13 and similar data from 32 other agencies were taken down April 17 as a precaution, said Agriculture spokeswoman Terri Teuber. [...] The department originally said Friday the Social Security numbers of 105,000 to 150,000 individuals had been entered into federal databases open to the public since 1981. But by Friday evening, after they calculated how many people had been entered more than once, USDA announced that 63,000 individuals had their Social Security numbers exposed. The data has only been posted on the Internet by the Census Bureau since 1996. [...] _______________________________________________ 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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