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U.S. GAO Removes Archived Personal Data from Website

Rob Thormeyer writes on GCN.com:

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.

posted by Fergie @ 6/27/2006 08:26:00 AM