The State Department said Friday it has warned nearly 400 passport applicants of a security breach in its records system that may have left them open to identity theft.
The department has so far notified 383 people — most of them in the Washington, D.C. area — that their passport applications containing personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been illegally accessed and used to open fraudulent credit card accounts, spokesman Sean McCormack said.
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Source: Assiciated Press
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