OH: Internal errors blamed for Franklin employees Social Security scare

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.timesreporter.com/index.php?ID=70390

The Social Security numbers of 1,800 present and former Jackson Local 
Schools' employees were at risk of public access on a county-maintained 
Web site.

The personal data is now secure, school officials said Wednesday, and foul 
play is not suspected.

"We do not believe it was a hacker or anything sinister. We feel confident 
this was not the result of criminal activity, but an internal error," said 
Larry Morgan, superintendent of Stark County Schools and chairman of the 
Stark-Portage Area Regional Computer Consortium, also known as SPARCC.

The consortium is one of 23 information technology centers across the 
state that provides record-keeping and fiscal and data-processing 
capabilities for school districts. The Social Security numbers were 
accessible on the SPARCC Web site, which keeps data for 28 school 
districts and two educational service centers in Stark and Portage 
counties.

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