Los Alamos warns workers about identity theft

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/60494.html

Los Alamos National Laboratory warned employees about protecting 
themselves against identity theft after the names and Social Security 
numbers of 550 lab workers were posted on a Web site run by a 
subcontractor working on a security system.

An April 5 letter to the employees from Jan A. Van Prooyen, the lab's 
acting deputy director, said the problem was discovered the previous week 
when a lab employee happened upon the Web site of a software services 
company that had been hired years before.

Clicking a link and entering a password provided online led to a table 
that included names, and in some cases, Social Security numbers, of people 
who entered certain lab sites around 1998, the letter said.

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