Hi Steve,
Viewing the source code isn't a hack. you can do it right now. Here's how if you are using Internet Explorer. Just click View then select source. The bots looking at nothing  except the source code. So any bots that downloaded from the site will have the information. Bots are often used by the data minors, so likely as not they have already found the numbers may may already have incorporated them into their databases.

I am also concerned about how many copies of this information the state may have sold in bulk. It is a common practice in most states to sell the professional licensing databases to information brokers, who in turn sell them in their databases.

Don't be smoozed by the back peddling the SSC is doing now. They are in damage control and disinformation mode. They released the information through some kind of technological blunder and their is nothing they can do to retrieve it. Their use of technical jargon is just an attempt to obscure the facts to thinking Virginians. The fact is, they blew it. If title insurance agent's SSN's were included in this breach (visible or in the source code) those numbers are now resident on computers all over the world.

Could the SCC have avoided this breach? Absolutely. If they had considered the security of Virginians more important than their own convenience, the information would have never been on any server connnected to the Internet.

To quote Judge Robert Judge Robert H. Alsdorf,  KING <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, Washington, "It is hard to conceive of a broader invasion of privacy than freely disseminating the information to the entire world and rendering it instantaneously accessible to all."

It may be that judges in Virginia will soon have an opportunity to come to the same conclusion.