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Donald Trump's SSN Appears in Web Documents

An AP newswire article, via The Boston Globe, reports that:

New York state officials on Friday froze portions of a state Web site that identity thieves could have used to access the Social Security numbers of some New Yorkers -- including billionaire developer Donald Trump.

The Department of State's Web site led to commercial loan documents where the numbers could be found with a simple name search. It took the department more than three hours to block access to the documents after The Associated Press alerted officials to the problem.

The forms are posted by the department to let lenders know the current financial status of loan recipients.

It was unclear late Friday how long the information was available on the site, and the Department of State did not immediately return calls seeking clarification.

Trump was traveling and could not immediately be reached for comment.

posted by Fergie @ 2/02/2007 09:08:00 PM