Alaska Breach May Affect 77 Thousand Public Employees
One of the immediate questions about the security leak the state announced today is why did the accounting firm learn about it in early December and reveal it to the state last week?
PricewaterhouseCoopers should have acted sooner when it learned that the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 77,000 people were lost in its Chicago office and the information could have fallen into the wrong hands.
The people at risk for identify theft are those who were in the PERS and TRS system in 2003-04 as active or inactive employees or retirees.
A reader notes the irony about the state announcement, which occurred on “Data Privacy Day,” an international observance about the need to safeguard private information.
The attorney general said the state was first informed last week it had a “problem,” but it took a few days to determine the potential extent of the problem. Attorney General Dan Sullivan said the first conversation he had with upper management of PricewaterhouseCoopers “wasn’t very pleasant.”
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