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More than 4, 600 Floridians' personal data accidentally posted
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:02:41 -0400
Florida's Labor Department unwittingly posted the names and Social Security numbers of more than 4,600 of its clients on the Internet last month, only to discover the error when a Fort Walton Beach man Googled his own name, an agency spokesman said Tuesday. Since the information was not linked to any Web site, the Agency for Workforce Innovation, as the department is known, reported that it has no reason to believe anyone else accessed it. But as a precaution it sent out letters last week to the 4,624 individuals, all of whom had enrolled for services with one of the 24 regional workforce boards across the state, spokesman Warren May said. [...] http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2006/10/11/a1d_breach_1011.html _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 136 million compromised records in 403 incidents over 6 years.
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