Tx Lotto winners information stolen

[Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6434281.html
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AUSTIN --- A former Texas lottery worker was arrested while training for 
a new job Tuesday --- his fourth with the state --- and charged with 
illegally "possessing" personal information on 140 lottery winners and 
employees, including their names and Social Security numbers.

Joseph Mueggenborg was still working for the Lottery Commission in 2007 
when he allegedly took the information, which was discovered last year 
on a state computer at the Comptroller of Public Accounts where he later 
was employed.

He was fired and the information was turned over to criminal investigators.

...

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