Indianapolis Personal Injury Blog

Indiana State Employees Filing For Disability Exposed On Internet

Theindychannel.com reports that the personal information of 8,775 Indiana state employees was accidentally posted on the internet on the morning of January 20, all of whom had filed disability claims or workers' compensation claims within the last three years, dating back to 2005.

Although the sensitive file - which included the social security numbers of the employees as well as other sensitive information - was only posted for about two hours, four different parties access the information during that time. The files appeared on the Indiana Department of Administration's website after an accidental upload took place.

The IDOA has sent letters to those affected by the security breach and are procuring affidavits from the four different individuals and companies who accessed the information to assure that the data has been destroyed.

"We are doing everything we can to minimize any risk associated with this incident. We don't take this lightly," said IDOA Commissioner Mark Everson. "We are reviewing and strengthening our procedures to ensure that this does not happen again."