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by Paul Roberts on October 15, 2012 |Comments (2)

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Filed Under: Data loss, Law & order


The town of Burlington, Washington has warned residents that they could be the targets of identity theft, after hackers compromised a number of town systems used to run an online automatic utility billing system and emptied $400,000 from a city bank account.

In a notice posted on the town’s website, Bryan Harrison, the City Administrator, said that a city-run automatic payment system - that was used by residents to pay sewer and storm drain charges - was compromised.