State pays for data breach
AUSTIN — The taxpayer tab for individual credit monitoring after a data breach in Comptroller Susan Combs' office has topped $600,000, and Combs' campaign is paying extra to resolve routine credit glitches in some cases.
Though investigations continue into the data exposure revealed in April 2011, there is no evidence of misuse of any personal information belonging to 3.5 million Texans, state officials said.
"I think initially there was a lot of worry," said Joe Ross, president of CSID, a company Combs' office contracted with to provide credit monitoring. "There's still a little bit of apprehension — was my identity exposed?"
But Texans should feel good knowing their information hasn't been misused, Ross said in an interview Friday.
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2012/feb/12/state-pays-for-data-breach/ (Abilene Reporter-News)
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This is not going to ever really go away. I think this consumer Beth Hudson quoted in the article is right. Just cause they haven't misused it so far, doesn't mean they won't.
The assurances don't relieve Beth Hudson, 57, a seventh-grade teacher in Austin who has been watching her financial accounts constantly since the incident to make sure there's no sign of identity theft.
"I have read that sometimes it can be years before it happens, so I'm not comforted by the lack of activity so far," Hudson said. "I'm always guarded, though I don't think obsessive. But it is always in the back of my mind."
Even if it's 5 years from now. If I was one of those people on that list - I would hit the state for it anytime it happens.
After that they will claim sovereign immunity.
Is there such a thing on breeches of security? Just wondering. This cyber world is a whole new thing for crimes and penalties. Some things still taking some time to work themselves out.
