MACON, Ga. (AP) – Sheriff’s officials are perplexing to learn how mechanism tough drives containing names and Social Security numbers of Macon military officers were sole by an online auction site.
The mechanism apparatus has been incited over to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Department. According to Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Smallwood, a inspect is in a early stages and expected will take some time since investigators contingency inspect 39 tough drives, dual mechanism servers and dual executive estimate units.
It’s not transparent because a information was on a computers when they were sold.
Macon military mouthpiece Jami Gaudet pronounced that when a military dialect gets absolved of a computer, it’s incited over to a city’s Information Technology department, that is ostensible to purify a tough expostulate before it’s sole by a city.
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Information from: The Macon Telegraph, http://www.macontelegraph.com
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