UT: Data found on surplus computers

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660220231,00.html

Utah State Auditor Auston Johnson conducted a "sting" operation a year ago 
that found important information - including Social Security and credit 
card numbers - on a handful of state surplus computers that were heading 
toward public sale.

But Johnson decided to write what is known as "letter audits" to the seven 
state department heads on whose computers such sensitive information was 
found, instead of issuing a normal public audit, because Johnson didn't 
want to alert owners of state surplus computers that such sensitive 
information may be on their machines' hard drives.

"We were not out for a big publicity splash, but to fix a problem," 
Johnson said Friday. "And we have high confidence that the problem has 
been fixed and that no state surplus computers have this information on 
them now."

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