Two month's prior to the data theft they were warned to secure the SSN files immediately, which was ignored.....
From ONN --
State employees had been ordered to remove thousands of Social Security numbers from a new payroll and accounting system two months before a computer backup tape containing the personal data was stolen from an intern, a newspaper reported Saturday.
David White, executive program manager for the massive new computer project called the Ohio Administrative Knowledge System, sent an e-mail to four workers on April 4 telling them to move sensitive files to a secure part of the system, according to The Columbus Dispatch, which obtained a copy of the e-mail through a public records request.
"I want all files that can be identified with SSN data put into a secure directory today," White wrote. More....
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