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IRS auditor loses flash drive exposing SSNs of almost 12,000 people

By Linn Foster Freedman on August 20, 2015
Posted in Data Breach

Katy Independent School District (ISD) was randomly audited by the IRS on August 5th. In order to conduct the audit, the IRS auditor had a flash drive with the names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers of almost 12,000 ISD employees and former employees on it. The problem? It was unencrypted and the auditor…

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