[Dataloss] Suffolk County New York SSN Exposure

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Courtesy Emergent Chaos: http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/002438.html

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lisoci154627730feb15,0,7781591
.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines

The Suffolk county clerk's office has exposed the Social Security numbers 
of thousands of homeowners on its Web site, and officials said they don't 
have a way to remove them. And soon, a new plan will make it easier to 
retrieve them.

Mortgages and deeds that contain Social Security numbers for an estimated 
7,000 to 8,000 individuals have been "scanned" and posted on the county 
clerk's Web site.

They can be accessed with a tax map identification number, which is also 
public record. In the next few weeks, users who pay a $30 daily 
subscription fee will be able to search the documents dating as far back 
as 2001 from any computer with just a name or address, county officials 
said.

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