http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802997.html



By Brian Krebs

WashingtonPost.com Staff Writer

July 9, 2008



Sometime late last year, an employee of a McLean investment firm decided 

to trade some music, or maybe a movie, with like-minded users of the 

online file-sharing network LimeWire while using a company computer. In 

doing so, he inadvertently opened the private files of his firm, Wagner 

Resource Group, to the public.



That exposed the names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of 

about 2,000 of the firm's clients, including a number of high-powered 

lawyers and Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer.



The breach was not discovered for nearly six months. A reader of 

washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog found the information while 

searching LimeWire in June.



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