The FBI and Google are investigating the leak of approximately 200,000 names, addresses and Social Security numbers of confidential drug informants, victims and suspects from a Colorado sheriff’s department database.
The Mesa County Sheriff’s Department is examining the database to determine if anyone’s safety is potentially in jeopardy. The FBI and Google investigation centers on whether or not the information has already been posted on the Internet.
According to news reports, a Mesa County information technology employee moved the database to what he believed was a secure server last April. The information was uploaded as a large text file, and was accessed by an outside computer in late October. During November, the information was accessed a number of times by outside computers. The employee who did the file transfer is no longer employed by the county.
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