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TX: Texas State Site Leaks Personal Data
From: Dave <dave () etiolated org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:16:45 -0400
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134765-c,onlineprivacy/article.html Troy Aikman may not be happy about it, but the State of Texas has made his address and social security number available via the Internet. Sensitive information on Aikman, formerly a star quarterback with the Dallas Cowboys, and thousands of others is available on the Texas Secretary of State's SOSDirect Web site, according to Steven Peisner, the president of fraud prevention vendor Sellitsafe Inc., who has provided IDG News Service with a half-dozen examples of social security numbers he was able to obtain from the site. As government pushes more and more documents online, Texas is one of many state and local governments across the U.S. that is now struggling to remove sensitive information so that it cannot be misused by criminals. Peisner found social security numbers on tax liens and on loan agreement notifications filed with the state, called Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) financing statements. [..] Dave Etiolated Consumer\Citizen http://etiolated.org _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 213 million compromised records in 726 incidents over 7 years.
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