[privacy] Illinois: 300k Banking, Real-Estate Professionals At Risk in State Com puter Security Breach

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The (Springfield, Ill.) State Journal-Register
props, attrition.org).

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The state's professional-regulation department is notifying roughly 300,000
licensees and applicants that a computer server with some of their personal
data was breached early this year, a spokeswoman for the agency said
Friday.

Potentially at risk for identity theft are banking and real-estate
professionals whose licensing information - including addresses, tax
numbers and Social Security numbers - were kept on the storage server, said
Sue Hofer, spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Financial and
Professional Regulation.

She said investigators have determined that the breach "looks like criminal
conduct," and the hacking appears to have come from a source outside state
government.

Department officials notified the Illinois State Police and FBI after they
determined on May 3 that the computerized information had been compromised,
probably in January, Hofer said.

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More:
http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/114739.asp

- - ferg

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