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Leak of guns list has link to ruling
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:05:17 -0400
Berks County Sheriff Barry J. Jozwiak was trying to comply with a court order to create a more secure list of gun-permit holders when an outside contractor left at least some of the list exposed on the Internet, officials said Thursday. [Jozwiak]... previously said a Canon Technology Solutions employee was creating a more secure Web-based gun-permit list and inadvertently failed to turn on security software to protect the information over the Labor Day weekend. Fred Hershey, a county information-systems manager, said someone in China viewed the Web site, but apparently did not download information. The site contained the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and other personal information of some of the 25,000 gun-permit holders. [...] http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/09/15/1898313.htm _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 349 incidents over 6 years.
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