Posts Tagged ‘New Hampshire Corrections Department’

Data breach: New Hampshire prisoner found with list of all Corrections employees’ info

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Here’s how we’d like to think of it: Prison inmates are the stupid ones and their keepers are the smart ones.

Here’s how it really is: An unnamed New Hampshire prison employee assigned prisoners to work in a warehouse where they had access to Corrections Department records, including a list of ALL department employees and their Social Security numbers.

Big surprise: An inmate in a Concord minimum-security prison absconded with the list, which was discovered in his cell during a routine search.

The employee information included names, titles, positions, departments, labor grades and Social Security numbers of the roughly 1,000 people employed in the Corrections Department as of March 2008. (more…)