By Bryan Anderson

California’s Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday acknowledged that it inappropriately shared personal information regarding 3,200 customers with seven outside law enforcement, immigration, and administrative agencies over the past four years.

The district attorney offices for Santa Clara and San Diego counties inappropriately accessed personal identifying information related to the 3,000 DMV customers, the state said.

Another 200 DMV customers had their Social Security information wrongfully shared with and reviewed by the Department of Homeland Security, Internal Revenue Service, Small Business Administration Office of Inspector General, Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General and California Department of Health and Human Services.

Eighty-three of the DMV customers were undocumented immigrants.

The DMV said just six undocumented immigrants who applied for driver’s licenses had their personal information accessed by Homeland Security. Under Assembly Bill 60, a California law approved in 2013, the DMV must offer licenses to people without Social Security numbers.

While “data breach” notices are being sent out to the 3,200 customers, DMV Spokeswoman Anita Gore said the incident “is not a data breach in the general understanding of breaches,” because “the disclosure of this information by the DMV did not involve hacking or sharing information with private individuals or entities.”

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