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Suffolk County New York SSN Exposure
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:44:41 -0500 (EST)
Courtesy Emergent Chaos: http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/002438.html http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lisoci154627730feb15,0,7781591 .story?coll=ny-linews-headlines The Suffolk county clerk's office has exposed the Social Security numbers of thousands of homeowners on its Web site, and officials said they don't have a way to remove them. And soon, a new plan will make it easier to retrieve them. Mortgages and deeds that contain Social Security numbers for an estimated 7,000 to 8,000 individuals have been "scanned" and posted on the county clerk's Web site. They can be accessed with a tax map identification number, which is also public record. In the next few weeks, users who pay a $30 daily subscription fee will be able to search the documents dating as far back as 2001 from any computer with just a name or address, county officials said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss mailing list Dataloss () attrition org https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/dataloss
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