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2011 — Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles: The Oregon DMV sold DMV database information to…

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Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

The Oregon DMV sold DMV database information to marketing companies prior to the late 1990s.  A man gained access to this information and used it to create fake Oregon identification cards and print fake checks.  He was charged with 26 counts of aggravated identity; this represents one count per victim for each letter of the alphabet.  The databases includes 1.6 million names, addresses, dates of birth, genders and ages of people who registered with the DMV.  The database of publicly available i

Root cause

Unintended disclosure

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