The Austin American-Statesman reported last week that 39-year-old Joseph Anthony Mueggenborg of Austin was arrested in connection with the 2007 theft of the personal details of more than 27,000 lottery winners, employees and retailers.
According to the paper,
According to a search warrant filed in September, an assortment of Lottery Commission files was discovered on Mueggenborg's state computer while he worked in the fiscal management division of the Texas comptroller's office.
They included "names, social security numbers, race/sex, home addresses, home telephone numbers, hire date, job titles" and other information on 619 lottery employees; names, addresses and amounts won and paid on 27,075 "mid-level Texas Lottery prizewinners"; and the names and Social Security numbers of 534 lottery retailers.
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