Prison staff wins in case of information breach

[Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>]

http://www.kentucky.com/211/story/31580.html

A U.S. district judge ruled in favor of a group of prison employees 
who were the victims of a security breach when a file with their 
personal information -- home addresses, Social Security numbers -- 
were made accessible to prisoners in a work program.

The court ruling said "prison officials went to great lengths to 
thwart the plaintiffs' efforts to discover the extent of the security 
breach" by claiming the file was marked as sensitive and by 
destroying the folder in question.

According to their lawyer, Doug McSwain, 99 guards and employees of 
Federal Medical Center on Leestown Road in Lexington filed the 
lawsuit in 2003. Judge Jennifer B. Coffman ruled Friday that the 
plaintiffs be paid $1,000 or the amount of damages, and the cost of 
prosecuting the lawsuit.

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