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[privacy] Sensitive Info Available on King County Web Site
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:20:37 GMT
Via The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. [snip] King County Elections has posted the social security numbers for potentially thousands of current and former county residents, County Council member Reagan Dunn said Monday. "Within forty-five minutes, my staff was able to retrieve online documents with the social security numbers of numerous local elected officials and other high-profile individuals," Dunn said. "If we had a criminal agenda, these people would be victims of identity-theft by now." Dunn said the problem was revealed when a constituent contacted his office to say that by performing a records search on herself, she had found her social security number on the election Web site. [snip] More: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/275386_records26ww.html - 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/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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