Macon City computers sold at auction held sensitive data
NewsCentral Staff
Story Created:
Jan 9, 2013 at 4:08 PM EDT
Story Updated:
Jan 10, 2013 at 1:00 AM EDT
MACON, Ga. (AP) - Sheriff's officials are trying to learn how computer hard drives containing names and Social Security numbers of Macon police officers were sold through an online auction site.
The computer equipment has been turned over to the Bibb County Sheriff's Department. According to Sheriff's Capt. Mike Smallwood, the probe is in its early stages and likely will take some time because investigators must examine 39 hard drives, two computer servers and two central processing units.
It's not clear why the data was on the computers when they were sold.
Macon police spokeswoman Jami Gaudet said that when the police department gets rid of a computer, it's turned over to the city's Information Technology department, which is supposed to clean the hard drive before it's sold by the city.
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Information from: The Macon Telegraph, http://www.macontelegraph.com
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