Recently the names, social security numbers, bank account numbers, e-mail and street addresses were acquired for almost 282,000 unemployed workers in Massachusetts. The culprit was a strain of the W32.Qakbot worm had infected as many as 1,500 computers at the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and Department of Career Services, the article states. The officials thought that Symantec would eliminate the worm, however that software was unsuccessful.