[Dataloss] Hanford workers warned about security breach

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Courtesy InfoSec News and WK

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/273650_hanfsecurity13.html

By SHANNON DININNY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
June 13, 2006

The U.S. Energy Department has warned about 4,000 current and former
workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation that their personal
information may have been compromised, after police found a 1996 list
with workers' names and other information in a home during an
unrelated investigation.

The discovery marks the second time in less than a week that the
Energy Department has warned employees and its contractors' employees
that their personal information may have been compromised.

Police in Yakima discovered the list while investigating an unrelated
criminal matter, the Energy Department said, adding that the list
included the names of people who worked for a former Hanford
contractor, Westinghouse Hanford, who were transferring to Fluor
Hanford or companies under contract to Fluor Hanford in 1996.

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