Iowa Lottery exposed Social Security numbers of nearly 3,000 winners

Comment #11

Bleudog101 — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 18:43:41 GMT

Please DON'T DO that offshore thing. IRS has really been cracking down on this. They even strong armed Switzerland (Schweiz) into revealing the US citizens who had secret bank accounts there. I wish they flipped them the middle finger.

Comment #10

OldHippie — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 04:24:35 GMT

Just another big, fat reason to always stash away large sums of money in a trust, preferably an offshore trust because you don't need to have an SS number associated with it.

Comment #9

noise-gate — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:36:01 GMT

The response from the Iowa lottery is typically. What they saying is we sorry . We promise not to do it again. Scout's honor! Did we say we sorry? Thanks players.

Comment #8

Groppo — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:02:51 GMT

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About the story:

I hate this like you don't know.

I want to say That figures. Why am I not surprised? .

It goes along with what I know (or what I'm reasonably sure) can be found in The Bible -

about the last days and such. . . .

about how people will basically not give a s____ about anyone else. And that goes for peoples'

property as well. . . . (like whoever in Iowa was at the controls and responsible, etc.),

about not respecting laws, rules, etc. and not setting su... [ More ]

Comment #7

Bleudog101 — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 22:05:26 GMT

Notice that NEXT YEAR Medicare card will be sans SSAN. I mean the privacy law is from 1974 and the feds just implementing this?

At work our hours worked were just left laying on a table with SSAN right on it. Then they had a survey and told them I'm a member of the ACLU and this is illegal. Let me assure you within two weeks the SSAN was gone and we were given unique ID's.

The best thing to do, which we did a long time ago is get a security freeze. We did 2 out of 3 credit report... [ More ]

Comment #6

Ron5995 — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:56:30 GMT

There was a time when SSNs were often easily viewable in public records. The difference now is the internet; ease of transferring large amounts of information electronically. SSN was never intended to be private nor used as a universal identifier, which it is not, since some SSNs are in use by multiple people.

Credit monitoring, while better than nothing, adds no real protection. It's a PR ploy to placate the public, since most often one can't win a money judgement against an organization tha... [ More ]

Comment #5

CDanaT — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:43:48 GMT

HM,let me tell you exactly what that means... As a former employee with a secret security clearance who was in that group who had my info taken a few years ago. They send you a notice from a myIDcare who they have use to provide identity protection and it will say as follows:

MYIDCare has discovered one or more or you identity monitoring services has a new notification.This is not a credit notification. Please log into MyIDCare at opm.gov/cybersecurity or click Log In to review the details o... [ More ]

Comment #4

Todd — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:21:53 GMT

Well, that's not true.

Comment #3

Raven62 — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:55:48 GMT

Nothing! They will Claim the Winners Social Security Number was Compromised by Equifax

Comment #2

haymaker — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:57:51 GMT

Offering...credit monitoring service

Okay, what will you do for those that suffer an actual loss

Comment #1

music* — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:08:27 GMT

I hope that the winners accept the Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich's apology. To err is human to forgive divine.

All the other States, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands should take the appropriate actions.

Iowa Lottery exposed Social Security numbers of nearly 3,000 winners

Lottery Post — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:57:22 GMT

The Iowa Lottery said in a release Tuesday that the organization inadvertently released the Social Security numbers of some of its prize winners from calendar year 2011.

This release of sensitive data was unintentional, Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich said. On behalf of the entire lottery team, I apologize for this mistake. As we have said many times through the years, human involvement in any process means it will not be perfect. We are offering those impacted access to a credit-monitoring serv... [ More ]