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Prison staff wins in case of information breach
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:22:13 -0400
http://www.kentucky.com/211/story/31580.html A U.S. district judge ruled in favor of a group of prison employees who were the victims of a security breach when a file with their personal information -- home addresses, Social Security numbers -- were made accessible to prisoners in a work program. The court ruling said "prison officials went to great lengths to thwart the plaintiffs' efforts to discover the extent of the security breach" by claiming the file was marked as sensitive and by destroying the folder in question. According to their lawyer, Doug McSwain, 99 guards and employees of Federal Medical Center on Leestown Road in Lexington filed the lawsuit in 2003. Judge Jennifer B. Coffman ruled Friday that the plaintiffs be paid $1,000 or the amount of damages, and the cost of prosecuting the lawsuit. [...] -- Main site: http://www.pogowasright.org Main RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss Breaches RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/breaches.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 203 million compromised records in 609 incidents over 7 years.
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