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SC: Laptop with 400 state workers' Social Security numbers missing


From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 01:35:29 +0000 (UTC)


http://www.timesanddemocrat.com/articles/2008/01/31/ap-state-sc/d8uh6a2g1.txt

A laptop containing the names and Social Security numbers of around 400 
state health department employees is missing.

The Department of Health and Environmental Control says the computer was 
inside a worker's vehicle when it was stolen last week from a Spartanburg 
convenience store.

State officials say the password-protected computer contains personal 
information of state health department workers from Spartanburg, Cherokee, 
Union, Greenville and Pickens counties.

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