The Social Security numbers of more than 2.5 million Marylanders were exposed last year due to insufficient safeguarding by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, state auditors reported.
Auditor Thomas J. Barnickel said no one's identity appeared to have been stolen.
The corrections department maintains the state's Sex Offender Registry Database and the fingerprint identification system.
Barnickel declined to say whose information was exposed. The state housed 21,504 inmates in 2013, the most recent year for which data was available on its website.
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2 comments:
Does it really matter whether or not identity theft occurred? The numbers were exposed. They were made available to people other than who they were trusted. So what difference does it make whether or not theft occurred? The real issue here is government, when having access to this information, should be more secure and treat that personal information as if its their own personal information.
Just because no theft resulted now does not mean future infringement will not be done. Whoever has the information could be waiting out a cooling off period and then will sell these numbers to the highest bidder to be used at a later date.
I don't have a SS# and never did.Good luck on stealing mine.
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