Connecticut Workers’ Info Ends Up on the Web

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Over 1700 Connecticut state workers were recently informed that their personal info, including Social Security numbers and names have been posted to the Internet. Even worse, the information may have been there since 2003!

The employees were notified by letter just last week. State officials apparently learned of it last month when a state worker found his name on a site.

“With all the attention that has been given to similar losses of data at the Veterans Administration and at banks and universities, I would have thought somebody would have been a lot more careful with that information,” said Ken Clair, one of the 1,753 state employees who received one of the letters. Source: USA Today

We Say: Apparently the information was not accessible by link, but only by searching by name. However, you would think they would offer them free credit monitoring service for a year, as often happens in these cases. Instead “those affected workers have been advised to monitor their personal finance records the next few months”.