South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who has just started her second term, has said she and her immediate family are at a “very high risk” of identity theft after the House Jan. 6 Committee made their Social Security numbers public.
In what Noem’s attorney described as a “critical breach of confidential data,” the numbers belonging to Noem, her husband, her three children and son-in-law were published without redaction as part of the White House’s visitor logs that became exhibits during the Jan. 6 Committee hearings.
The logs contained “nearly 2,000 Social Security numbers associated with visitors to the White House in December 2020,” according to The Washington Post, which first reported on the leak. The numbers, as required by law, should have been redacted prior to the document’s publication….