[Dataloss] ID thieves lifted personal info from court Web site

[Henry Brown]

 From the Coshocton Ohio Tribune
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ID thieves lifted personal info from court Web site

COLUMBUS (AP) - Police say hundreds of people in five states are victims 
of identity theft after someone lifted their Social Security numbers 
from a municipal court Web site.

Someone manually fed random numbers into the Franklin County Municipal 
Court Web site, hoping to find someone with one of the numbers. Once the 
thief made a connection, the persons' name, address, age and other 
information was used to obtain credit cards and open bank accounts.

    
The Web site contains personal information for thousands of people 
charged with misdemeanors.
The victims, from Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina, Texas and Wyoming, may 
not realize their identities were stolen, said Worthington police.