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Sensitive Info Available on King County Web Site

Via The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

King County Elections has posted the social security numbers for potentially thousands of current and former county residents, County Council member Reagan Dunn said Monday.

"Within forty-five minutes, my staff was able to retrieve online documents with the social security numbers of numerous local elected officials and other high-profile individuals," Dunn said. "If we had a criminal agenda, these people would be victims of identity-theft by now."

Dunn said the problem was revealed when a constituent contacted his office to say that by performing a records search on herself, she had found her social security number on the election Web site.

posted by Fergie @ 6/26/2006 12:18:00 PM