Counties across the U.S. posting sensitive info online

April 12, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) – Broward County, Fla., Maricopa County, Ariz., Fort Bend County, Texas. Three counties separated by hundreds of miles with something in common: They’re among potentially hundreds of counties in several states that in recent years have made Social Security numbers, driver’s license information, bank account numbers and a variety of other personally sensitive data belonging to residents available to anyone in the world with Internet access.

For the complete article, see: http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,110453,00.html?source=x73

Paul R. Bergeron
City Clerk
229 Main Street
Nashua, NH 03060
Telephone: 603/589-3010
Fax: 603/589-3029
http://www.gonashua.com/


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