More than 4, 600 Floridians' personal data accidentally posted

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Florida's Labor Department unwittingly posted the names and Social 
Security numbers of more than 4,600 of its clients on the Internet 
last month, only to discover the error when a Fort Walton Beach man 
Googled his own name, an agency spokesman said Tuesday.

Since the information was not linked to any Web site, the Agency for 
Workforce Innovation, as the department is known, reported that it 
has no reason to believe anyone else accessed it.

But as a precaution it sent out letters last week to the 4,624 
individuals, all of whom had enrolled for services with one of the 24 
regional workforce boards across the state, spokesman Warren May said.

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2006/10/11/a1d_breach_1011.html

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