Data exposure: Counties across the U.S. posting sensitive info online
Broward County, Fla., Maricopa County, Ariz., Fort Bend County, Texas. Three counties separated by hundreds of miles with something in common: They’re among potentially hundreds of counties in several states that in recent years have made Social Security numbers, driver’s license information, bank account numbers and a variety of other personally sensitive data belonging to residents available to anyone in the world with Internet access. Full Story