By Matthew Lee

updated 1:27 p.m. ET, Fri., Oct. 31, 2008

WASHINGTON - The State Department said Friday it has warned nearly 400 passport applicants of a security breach in its records system that may have left them open to identity theft.

The department has so far notified 383 people — most of them in the Washington, D.C. area — that their passport applications containing personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been illegally accessed and used to open fraudulent credit card accounts, spokesman Sean McCormacksaid ...................

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