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Sensitive Illinois DOC Personnel Records Compromised
Loaded on April 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2007, page 41
The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) recently mishandled personnel information on ?virtually all? of its 13,500 employees. Additionally, the Department of Transportation lost data on 40 of its employees.An angry public employees? union demanded to know when the breach occurred, what had been done to correct it, and whether ...
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