CalPERS and then New York State Pensions Let Out Retirees' Information
First California, now New York lets pensioner personal information slip out. A laptop thought to contain Social Security numbers and other personal data on 280,000 New York pensioners is missing. [Computerworld Breaking News] Last week CalPERS, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, inadvertently printed social security numbers on brochures about an upcoming election that were mailed to about 445,000 state retirees.
The privacy breach happened after an employee sent a disk
containing the numbers to the printer responsible for the brochures.
The disk was only supposed to contain the mailing list's names and addresses. According to Computerworld, that error prompted several changes at the CalPERS, including new
security awareness training for employees and a new process that
involves sign-offs from three individuals before personal information
can be released. On a related subject, that of posting personally identifiable information such as social security numbers on websites, in the past, Google could search for numbers within a range on a particular domain, but that search to check for possible social security numbers posted on state websites now seems to return an error.
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