Data Breach Alert: San Quentin visitors exposed to inmates, identity theft

Posted by Joe on March 31st, 2008

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A flash drive containing the names, drivers license numbers and date of birth of approximately 3,500 recent visitors to the San Quentin Prison in northern California was lost last week according to prison officials.

Prison guards routinely used the flash drive to move information collected from visitors from the prison’s administrative office to computers located at the facility’s two entrance gates. The information was discovered missing last Friday.

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