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540,000 New Yorkers at Risk of ID Theft

An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

The names, addresses and Social Security numbers of as many as 540,000 injured workers have been lost, and the state and a contracted company are trying to protect the workers from identity theft.

In New York, company and state officials said Monday that the data was on computer hardware that is missing from a secured facility of the company, Chicago-based CS Stars, an independent insurance brokerage.

Most of the workers are New Yorkers from across the state who are in two special funds of the workers’ compensation system. One group is all workers who have a second injury and another is all workers who have a past injury that creates new problems, said state Workers Compensation Board spokesman John Sullivan.

posted by Fergie @ 7/24/2006 04:02:00 PM