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Southington CT city employees at risk after break in
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:20:14 -0500
http://www.courant.com/news/local/nb/hc-southeft0607.artjun07,0,983269.story Title: State Asks Southington To Give 26 ID-Theft Protection Author: KEN BYRON | Courant Staff Writer Date: June 7, 2008 SOUTHINGTON — - The state is asking the town to protect 26 current and former water department employees against identity theft after personal information about them was stolen from the department's former headquarters. Late last month, police learned that the department's former headquarters off High Street had been broken into. The department had stored records there, and documents with the names and Social Security numbers of the 26 people were found scattered by the nearby Quinnipiac River, state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Friday. Twenty-two current employees and four former employees are affected. Whoever broke into the building rifled through the papers in it," Blumenthal said. He said the state wants the water department to provide the affected employees with identity-theft insurance and with a credit-protection plan that would warn them if an application for any sort of credit is made in their name. The department has not yet responded to that request, Blumenthal said, and department Superintendent Thomas West could not be reached on Friday for comment. So far, Blumenthal said, Southington officials have cooperated with his office. Except for the storage of old records, the building has been vacant since the department moved to a new headquarters on West Queen Street three years ago. So far, Blumenthal said, no department employees whose information was taken have been victimized. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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