3 Million Texas Records Inadvertently Disclosed

[Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>]

http://www.txsafeguard.org/110411-security.php

The Texas Comptroller’s office is sending letters beginning Wednesday, 
April 13, to notify a large number of Texans whose personal information 
was inadvertently disclosed on an agency server that was accessible to 
the public. The records of about three and a half million people were 
erroneously placed on the server with personally identifying information.

There is no indication the personal information was misused.The records 
contained the names and mailing addresses of individuals. The records 
also included Social Security numbers, and to varying degrees also 
contained other information such as dates of birth or driver’s license 
numbers – all the numbers were embedded in a chain of numbers and not in 
separate fields.
...

The information was in data transferred by the Teacher Retirement System 
of Texas (TRS), the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) and the Employees 
Retirement System of Texas (ERS).

The TRS data transferred in January 2010 had records of 1.2 million 
education employees and retirees. The TWC data transferred in April 2010 
had records of about 2 million individuals in their system. And the ERS 
data transferred in May 2010 had records of approximately 281,000 state 
employees and retirees.
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