You do remember the exposing of hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers on tax booklets by the Department of Revenue last year, right? The “good news” is they only exposed about 5,000 S.S. numbers this time around.
The bad – The Department of Health and Family Services jumped on the bandwagon, with 260,000 Senior Care recipients having their S.S. numbers printed on the outside of a brochure.
The ugly – The University of Wisconsin-Madison left 205 employees’ S.S. IDs hanging out in the ether. Worse, unlike the DOR, the DHFS and the contractors involved, UW is not going to offer credit-monitoring assistance despite the greater and continuing likelyhood of those numbers falling into the wrong hands.
