[Dataloss] Personal information of 826 state employees stolen

[rchick]

June 26, 2008
http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=8562199

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- The personal information of 826 state
employees was stolen from a Wichita Falls home office.

A lockbox containing the information was taken from the home office of
an employee of L-1 Identity Solutions, a private company contracted by
the Department of Public Safety to do fingerprinting.

Notices are in the mail to inform the hundreds of victims that their
names, home addresses, dates of birth, driver's license and Social
Security numbers are in the hands of criminals. About 100 of those
people work for the State Board of Education, and this is happening
less than a year after the Texas Legislature mandated that all
education employees submit their fingerprints for criminal background
checks.

The of 826 people now in the hands of criminals.

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