San Jose quietly spent weeks sorting out a lost USB drive loaded with worker data before telling the people whose information was on it, leaving some city employees wondering why they were the last to know.
The city notified current and former workers this month that a missing USB drive from January may have exposed personnel records, including Social Security numbers. City administrators learned the device was gone on Jan. 12 and alerted police about a week later. Letters to employees, however, went out with a Feb. 9 date, according to people who reviewed the notices.
Officials say there is still no sign anyone actually accessed the data, and the city is offering affected workers a complimentary year of credit monitoring.
City launches probe after worker reports missing drive
The notification letter, reviewed by San José Spotlight, says city administrators opened an internal investigation after a “workforce member” reported the USB drive missing and that law enforcement was notified…