Connecticut is trying to plug a security breach created when an administrator sent the Social Security numbers of hundreds of school employees in an e-mail.
The e-mail listed participants in an upcoming training session that involves almost all of the 1,250 employees in the state technical high school system, the Hartford Courant reports. At least one school is known to have forwarded the list -- and the Social Security numbers -- to everyone on its staff.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he was "appalled and astonished by this apparent senseless security breach." It apparently happened when a hurried employee -- intending to send a list stripped of Social Security numbers -- attached the wrong file.
As soon as the administrator realized her error, schools were asked to delete the e-mail. Blumenthal warned that anyone misusing the information would face serious consequences.
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