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Around 22,000 Social Security numbers of Delaware state government retirees have been inadvertently posted online by a government contractor.
Aon Consulting included the Social Security numbers, gender and birthdates of about 22,000 Delaware state government retirees in a request for proposals for insurance companies interested in providing vision coverage to employees and retirees. Retirees affected included teachers, state police and the judiciary.
That information was posted on the state’s procurement website, a mistake that went undetected for from August 16th to August 20th. The information was taken down once it was discovered.
Aon is a multinational corporation with offices in more than 120 countries.
Insurers need age and other information on the pool of people to be covered in order to prepare a bid, Aon Consulting spokesman Joe Micucci said Monday. He said that is normally done by using a random series of digits assigned to individuals to shield their identity, not their Social Security numbers.
However, “the information that should have been randomized was not,” Micucci said.
Letters are being sent to affected individuals who will be offered one year of free credit monitoring. The company also will provide the retirees information on the steps needed to place a fraud alert on their files.
Anyone could be an identity theft victim and if you might have not known it yet, millions of people fall on the hands of these thieves and stunning billions of dollars a year are lost due to this crime. When one’s identity get stolen, it takes months and sometimes even years before he realizes it. There are times when you see some charges unknown to you in your bills; thinking that it is something that just slipped your mind you just brush it off. If it happens every now and then, better have the hint that you’ve already lost your identity.
You might sometimes wonder how could someone know and use your personal information when you can’t remember giving out any information to any individual or any company. Ident
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A twist on this scam happening all over is with laptops. The