The U.S. Department of Agriculture will give free credit monitoring to tens of thousands of people whose social security numbers were inadvertently made public on a government Web site. The USDA said it is aware of no cases where the so-called private identification information was used for identity theft or other illegal purposes, but the potential exists, especially since the information was disseminated over the Internet. The affected people received loans through the government’s Farm Service Agency or USDA Rural Development, said the USDA.
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Farmer Discovers USDA Data Leak
Posted by: Fred J. Aun April 23, 2007 10:33 AMThe U.S. Department of Agriculture will give free credit monitoring to tens of thousands of people whose social security numbers were inadvertently made public on a government Web site. The USDA said it is aware of no cases where the so-called private identification information was used for identity theft or other illegal purposes, but the potential exists, especially since the information was disseminated over the Internet. The affected people received loans through the government’s Farm Service Agency or USDA Rural Development, said the USDA.