Florida Security Breach Exposes 250,000 Consumer's Social Security Numbers

When a test server was made accessible to the internet for over two weeks, Google's indexing service inadvertently made available online the highly sensitive personal data a quarter of a million residents of the state of Florida. According to the Agency for Workforce Innovation website's new release of this past Thursday: "The security breach occurred on an Agency test server for 19 days in October 2008 and resulted in the exposure of the names and Social Security Numbers of approximately 250,000 customers who received services through Florida’s One-Stop Career Centers between January 2002 and November 2007." Given the worldwide reach of Google's search engine and how easily would be identity thieves can trade -or- transform a consumer's social security number (ssn) into revenue, it is very scary to think about the ramifications of this latest identity theft security breach coming so close to the major holiday shopping season. A time when, due to the sheer volume of billions of transactions, fraud can easily be obscured within the vast majority of legitimate commerce. But, for identity theft fraudsters, having unauthorized access to a consumer's full name and social security number can make it all to easy to secure "instant credit" from eager retail store clerks who get extra incentives during the holidays to open up new lines of credit to support more impulse shopping. So, our tip for today is for anyone in Florida that may have utilized the Florida One-Stop Career Centers between Jan. 2002 and Nov. 2007 . Take immediate action by conducting the following steps: 1) Check if your name's on the list by using the official state of Florida website . 2) Secure a totally free copy of your credit profile report from the only source authorized by the (3) major credit bureaus and check for any suspicious accounts listed under your name and social security number (ssn) 3) As credit reports will n-o-t show evidence of criminal identity theft committed against you in the form of medical identity fraud , property tax fraud , & outstanding arrest warrants all of which require your social security number , you would be highly warned to also get an immediate scan of your PIP . Your personal information profile (pip) is the only way that we know of to cost effectively and time efficiently scour the more than 400+ public databases which could contain your full name, social security number, address , & even in some instances your authorized signatures . Finally, be a good friend or family member , give the gift which keeps on giving beyond this holiday season. Let those you care about take advantage of these free and anonymous identity theft prevention tips available from Id Theft Secrets . This article may be published in it's entirety on your site. Article courtesy of

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