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Update: Affiliated Computer Services: Worker quizzed on stolen database


From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 00:32:38 -0500 (EST)


http://origin.denverpost.com/news/ci_4599954

Police are questioning an Affiliated Computer Services employee in 
connection with the theft of a computer that contained state-owned 
databases with the personal information of about 1.4 million people.

Police have not recovered the computer, a desktop model swiped from the 
Denver offices of ACS, but an employee of the company is a key suspect in 
the crime, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

No charges have been filed, and police would not release the employee's 
name. ACS spokesman Kevin Lightfoot referred all questions about the 
investigation to authorities.

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