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Re: US SSA data breach
From: "Chris Walsh" <chris () cwalsh org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:30:21 -0500
IIRC, this DMF is used by various genealogy sites. In that sense, everyone has access to it. The DMF itself is made publicly available in its entirety. See http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ as an example site. cw On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net> wrote:
http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152975-1.html SSA lists thousands of live persons as dead The Social Security Administration inadvertently compromised the personal information of more than 20,000 people by listing them in the Death Master File (DMF) while they were still alive, the agency's inspector general has determined.
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