MN - 3 laptops with sensitive data missing from auditor's office

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/490333.html

Last update: June 13, 2006 . 4:27 PM

St. Paul police are investigating the apparent theft of three computers 
from the office of State Auditor Patricia Anderson. The missing laptops 
might contain Social Security numbers and other personal information on 
some employees of local governments the auditor oversees.

"We've been going through the backups to see what was on them," Deputy 
Auditor Tony Sutton said Tuesday.

The loss was discovered late Thursday in a locked, unmarked fourth-floor 
area of the auditor's office near the State Capitol that is not open to 
the public and normally accessible only to 30 auditors and building staff 
members, Sutton said.

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