Personal Data for Harris County Employees Stolen

[Erica Absetz <erica () riskbasedsecurity com>]

http://www.kristv.com/news/personal-data-for-harris-county-employees-stolen/

HOUSTON (AP) - Officials with the largest county in Texas say
electronic files containing the personal information of 21,000 current
and former county employees have been stolen.

First Assistant Harris County Attorney Robert Soard tells the Houston
Chronicle that an outside law enforcement agency contacted the county
two weeks ago about the theft. He declined to identify the agency but
said it discovered files created in 2005 and 2007 containing the
names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and hire dates of every
person employed by the county at those times.

He says the county waited two weeks to notify the workers of the theft
because it didn't want to compromise an ongoing investigation. It's
not clear if the data was used criminally.
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