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Personal information of 826 state employees stolen
From: rchick <rchicker () etiolated org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:15:45 -0400
June 26, 2008 http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=8562199 AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- The personal information of 826 state employees was stolen from a Wichita Falls home office. A lockbox containing the information was taken from the home office of an employee of L-1 Identity Solutions, a private company contracted by the Department of Public Safety to do fingerprinting. Notices are in the mail to inform the hundreds of victims that their names, home addresses, dates of birth, driver's license and Social Security numbers are in the hands of criminals. About 100 of those people work for the State Board of Education, and this is happening less than a year after the Texas Legislature mandated that all education employees submit their fingerprints for criminal background checks. The of 826 people now in the hands of criminals. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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