[privacy] City of Chicago Loses Voter Data

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Chicago Sun-Times.

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About 100 computer discs with 1.3 million Chicago voters' Social Security
numbers have been distributed to aldermen and ward committeemen, and the
whereabouts of at least an additional six CDs with the same information are
unknown, according to the Chicago Board of Elections.

This follows another security lapse in October 2006, when voters' Social
Security numbers were available through the board's Web site. But unlike
the Web site flaw, which was fixed in a few minutes, it will be difficult,
if not impossible, for the Board of Elections to retrieve sensitive data
physically scattered on more than 100 discs throughout the area.

The discs also contain voters' birth dates and addresses -- information
that along with Social Security numbers can be used to commit identity
theft.

[snip]

More:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/222892,CST-NWS-data22.article

- - ferg

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