States failing to secure personal data

A hacker in Nebraska last month broke into the state treasurer’s database of child support data and gained access to the Social Security numbers, bank account routing numbers and other personal data of 300,000 people.

Oregon taxpayers were recently notified they may have had personal data stolen from state computers when an ex-state employee downloaded a virus from a porn site while at work.

And personal information about thousands of Illinois state workers has been found in dumpsters twice in the past year, prompting the legislature to pass a law last month making it a potential felony for state employees to knowingly throw away sensitive personal data.

By Kavan Peterson, Stateline.org Staff Writer

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