SHA Personal Information Accidentally Exposed

April 30th, 2008 by Agent Smith Data Leakage, Data Loss, IT security, In the News, security breach

Sensitive personal data of 1,800 State Highway Administration (SHA) employees, including names and Social Security numbers, were compromised last week in Baltimore. An internal investigation quoted by WBALTV showed that the breach was done inadvertently and not with criminal intent.

“We had an incident where an employee transferred personnel transaction data from a secure drive to a SHA shared drive,” said SHA Deputy Administrator of Finance and I.T. Normetha Goodrum.

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