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[update] Childnet
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:52:47 -0400
Two stories in the media today with additional details on this breach: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cchildnet12apr12,0,5437573.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines [...] Peter Balitsaris, president and CEO of ChildNet, acknowledged at a Wednesday afternoon press conference that the laptop contains financial and credit data, Social Security numbers, driver's license data and passport numbers for ChildNet program applicants. He said the computer doesn't have information about foster children and cannot be accessed without a password. He also said that there are no known full backups of the computer's hard drive, though his staff can work from paper copies of the information. [...] http://www.miamiherald.com/467/story/70966.html The agency responsible for Broward's foster children fired two employees on Wednesday after realizing they had previous criminal records and may have stolen from the agency. ChildNet had discovered the men's previous convictions, including one for manslaughter, during background checks before they were hired four years ago, but the agency hired them anyway, said Peter Balitsaris, agency president. [...] Missing from ChildNet are $8,000 in Wal-Mart gift cards and a laptop with personal information for about 12,000 people, including foster parents and employees. The gray Dell Latitude laptop contained personal information, including driver's license numbers, home addresses and Social Security numbers, Balitsaris said. The computer was used to gather information for background checks, including fingerprint scans. [...] Grant was sentenced to prison in 1995 for manslaughter in Palm Beach County and again in 2001 on a cocaine conviction, according to the Florida Department of Corrections. Williams' convictions included burglary in 1988 and battery in 1992, both in Tampa, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. [...] -- 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 207 million compromised records in 620 incidents over 7 years.
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