USDA Exposes Personal Data on Website
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The Social Security numbers of thousands of people who received loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been exposed for a number of years in a publicly available database, according to OMB Watch, a Washington-based nonprofit government watchdog organization.
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Conceivably this could affect 100,000 people,” Bass said. “What is harder [to determine] is how far this goes back. It could be decades. It’s just that this is the first time it has been easily accessible to the public on the Web.”
Any USDA funding recipient with concerns may call 1-800-FED-INFO (1-800-333-4636) to obtain information on the free credit monitoring offer.
[PC World]
Written by MCruz on April 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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