According to the Wasington Post, the personal data of over 2,000 clients of an investment firm were available to the public. One of the firm employee’s used a file-sharing network to trade a media file and erringly opened the files containing this private data. Those involved in this breach, included a Supreme Court Justice. This exposure was not detected until about six months later when a Wahingtonpost.com reader, read one of their blogs and then later used the same file-sharing website as the accused employee.

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