Summary
Utah State Auditor Auston Johnson conducted a "sting" operation a year ago that found important information -- including Social Security and credit card numbers -- on a handful of state surplus computers that were heading toward public sale.
But Johnson decided to write what is known as "letter audits" to the seven state department heads on whose computers such sensitive information was found, instead of issuing a normal public audit, because Johnson didn't want to alert owners of state surplus computers that such sensitive information may be on their machines' hard drives.See the full content of this document
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Data Found On Surplus Computers
"We were not out for a big publicity splash, but to fix a problem," Johnson said Friday. "And we have high confidence that the problem has been fixed and that no state surplus computers have this info...
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