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First arrested, then exposed: Maine sheriff leaks inmate SSNs
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 15:07:38 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.scmagazine.com/first-arrested-then-exposed-maine-sheriff-leaks-inmate-ssns/article/258105/ First arrested, then exposed: Maine sheriff leaks inmate SSNs Danielle Walker September 07, 2012 The Cumberland County sheriff's office in Portland, Maine accidentally posted inmates' Social Security numbers to the department's Facebook page. How many victims? Approximately 180. What type of personal information? Social Security numbers. What happened? A new computer program that allows arrest lists to be automatically posted to the agency's Facebook page, and subsequently sent to media outlets, was placed into a default setting during a system update that did not remove inmates' personal information. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Supporters: Risk Based Security (http://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/) Risk Based Security equips organizations with security intelligence, risk management services and on-demand security solutions to establish customized risk-based programs to address information security and compliance challenges. Tenable Network Security (http://www.tenable.com/) Tenable Network Security provides a suite of solutions which unify real-time vulnerability, event and compliance monitoring into a single, role-based, interface for administrators, auditors and risk managers to evaluate, communicate and report needed information for effective decision making and systems management.
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