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Social Security Numbers Found on State Websites
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 04:43:27 GMT
Via USA Today. [snip] The disclosure of Ohio residents' Social Security numbers on the state government's website highlights what many privacy experts and criminals already know: Such information is readily available to anyone with an Internet connection. It is common for the websites of the USA's secretaries of state to contain personal information, including Social Security numbers (SSNs) and home addresses, in business statements. Besides Ohio, the data is available in New York, Florida and at least seven other states, say privacy experts who provided USA TODAY with links to public websites. [snip] More: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/internetprivacy/2006-03-02-social_x.htm - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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