From: lyger (lygerattrition.org)
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 16:44:41 CST

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Courtesy Emergent Chaos: http://www.emergentchaos.com/archives/002438.html

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lisoci154627730feb15,0,7781591
.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines

The Suffolk county clerk's office has exposed the Social Security numbers
of thousands of homeowners on its Web site, and officials said they don't
have a way to remove them. And soon, a new plan will make it easier to
retrieve them.

Mortgages and deeds that contain Social Security numbers for an estimated
7,000 to 8,000 individuals have been "scanned" and posted on the county
clerk's Web site.

They can be accessed with a tax map identification number, which is also
public record. In the next few weeks, users who pay a $30 daily
subscription fee will be able to search the documents dating as far back
as 2001 from any computer with just a name or address, county officials
said.

[...]

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