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232000 Military SSN exposed
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:34:28 -0600
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65799 ... The military is playing catch-up on a year-old complaint that hundreds of thousands of officers’ Social Security numbers have been floating around on the Internet. In an October 2008 letter to the Defense Department and the Federal Trade Commission, Public.Resource.org detailed its discovery of roughly 232,000 military officers’ Social Security numbers in government and commercial databases, available to anyone with an Internet connection. ... But his complaint, addressed to military Inspector General Gordon Heddell, did not reach the Defense Privacy Office until August. The office is now in the process of ensuring the numbers have been redacted, both online and in print, director Samuel Jenkins said. "We’re at the beginning stages of this," Jenkins said. "We’re taking this very seriously and aggressively pursuing action." Military officials could not explain why it took nearly a year to address the complaint. ... _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Get business, compliance, IT and security staff on the same page with CREDANT Technologies: The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives. The eBook begins with considerations important to executives and business leaders. http://www.credant.com/campaigns/ebook-chpt-one-web.php
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