OK resident finds more than 5, 000 SSN after purchasing State owned server at auction

[rchick <rchicker () etiolated org>]

The Oklahoman, http://www.newsok.com

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is removing
hard drives from all surplus computer equipment after a server
containing the names and Social Security numbers of thousands of
residents was sold at an auction recently.

Oklahoma City resident Joe Sills discovered more than 5,000 Social
Security numbers after purchasing the server and other surplus state
computer equipment at an auction last month.

Sills was testing the equipment recently when he found the data in a
file on the server. He said he's outraged that the state didn't erase
the server's memory.

"People's identities are at risk," he said.

The server had been used by the state Tax Commission and, most
recently, the Corporation Commission.

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