Personal information on more than 80,000 current and retired New York police officers was stolen from a supposedly secure data warehouse that stored NYPD pension fund data.

The stolen data, stored on computer bakup tapes in a facility managed by the Port Authority, included names, addresses, Social Security numbers names, bank account numbers and medical records of officers.

The thief, who worked at a different location as a communications director for the pension fund, entered the guarded warehouse on Staten Island on a Saturday morning using an expired ID badge and and disabled a surveillance camera before making off with eight tapes of data.

Authorities discovered that data had been stolen only after the employee made suspicious comments at work.

One point worthy of note in this breach – the Port Authority facility where the police backup records were stolen also houses backup servers for Google and Yahoo.

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