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TX: Thousands of police at risk


From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 03:18:31 +0000 (UTC)


(Not sure about magnitude, pretty sure more details will be revealed 
over/after the weekend)

http://www.khou.com/news/local/crime/stories/khou070518_tj_copcomputer.81e7d778.html

Police tell us to guard our personal information closely. But it is the 
police who are now at risk.

The trouble starts at the northwest side offices of Productivity Center. 
On May 9, burglars hit the building and several others in the area.

They took numerous desktop and laptop computers.

One of the laptops contained the database of all Texas Law Enforcement 
Officers. Their Social Security numbers, birth dates, driver's license 
numbers, ect.

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