Two other employees have also been fired over the incident, a statement posted on .

The office has hired Gartner and Deloitte to review its existing information security controls and policies and to recommend any needed changes. In addition, the state has also negotiated a 70% discount on credit monitoring fees with Experian for affected individuals, the statement said.

The measures come in the wake of a recent disclosure by Combs' office that Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and names and addresses of more than 3.2 million Texans were inadvertently posted on a publicly accessible Web site for nearly a year.

The exposed data was contained in three files that were transferred to the comptroller's office from the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), the Texas Workforce Commission and the Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS).

The data, which was to be used by a property verification system at the Comptroller's office, was supposed to have been transferred in an encrypted manner by the agencies under Texas administrative rules. However, the data was transferred in an unencrypted manner to the Comptroller.