Mesa County "inadvertantly" posts list of suspects, victims, and informants

[birchyboy]

Here's the full story. Essentially, if you're one of 200k suspects, victims, and informants in Mesa County your data has been posted online. This can't be good....

[PsychoMike]

damn....

[PhL0aTeR]

in other words, snitches get stitches AND become a victim of identity theft

[Sleev]

someone needs to get fired for that

[PhL0aTeR]

someone needs to get fired for that

I believe the person responsible doesn't even work there anymore..... so... done.

[mathman1000]

Now that's a huge ef-up. Did you read that part where the sherrifs dept "thought" it was a secure server, but didn't even know for sure. Ummmmm, yeah, ok??

[rforsythe]

Now that's a huge ef-up. Did you read that part where the sherrifs dept "thought" it was a secure server, but didn't even know for sure. Ummmmm, yeah, ok??

Entirely believable. LE agencies charged with handling confidential data rarely actually understand how to achieve that.