A little more than six months , an employee of an investment firm McLean inadvertently exposed private business files while using LimeWire. This breach exposed the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of about 2,000 of the company's customers, including Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and a number of high-powered lawyers. The violation was not discovered until a LimeWire user came across information in June. Last week, the company informed affected customers and offered six months free credit report monitoring.
LimeWire and other file-sharing programs can be configured to allow access to all or part of the documents of a user. Many data breaches are unintentionally caused by these types of programs.
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