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<DIV><SPAN id=ctl00_bodycontent_ArticleDisplay_lblArticle>OKLAHOMA CITY -- The
Oklahoma Corporation Commission is removing hard drives from all surplus
computer equipment after a server containing the names and Social Security
numbers of thousands of residents was sold at an auction
recently.<BR><BR>Oklahoma City resident Joe Sills discovered more than 5,000
Social Security numbers after purchasing the server and other surplus state
computer equipment at an auction last month.<BR><BR>Sills was testing the
equipment recently when he found the data in a file on the server. He said he is
outraged that the state didn't erase the server's memory.<BR><BR>"People's
identities are at risk," he said.<BR><BR>The server had been used by the state
Tax Commission and, most recently, the Corporation Commission.<BR><BR>The Social
Security numbers are likely tied to trucking industry data kept on the server by
both agencies, Corporation Commission spokesman Matt Skinner said.<BR><BR>Since
the Corporation Commission is now removing hard drives from computer equipment
it sends to state auctions, people who buy the equipment will have to provide
their own hard drives, Skinner said. It will keep accidental sensitive
information leaks from happening again, he said.<BR><BR>State policy requires
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to be erased from surplus equipment before it is auctioned, state Department of
Central Services spokeswoman Gerry Smedley said. Erasing sensitive data is the
responsibility of the agencies that owned the equipment.</SPAN> </DIV>
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