[Dataloss] U.S. GAO Removes Archived Personal Data from Website

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Courtesy Fergie's Tech Blog:  http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/41171-1.html

The Government Accountability Office has pulled from its Web site
personal information on certain government employees after discovering
that the archived data had been inadvertently posted online.

In a recent notice, GAO said the data came from audit reports on
Defense Department travel vouchers from the 1970s and included some
service members' names, Social Security numbers and addresses. GAO
estimates that fewer than 1,000 people were impacted.

David Walker, head of the GAO and comptroller of the U.S., ordered the
agency to remove the data and directed officials to contact the
Pentagon and other affected organizations and urge them to purge
similar files.

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