Monday, July 16, 2007

State employees ignored warning on data theft

I wonder what kind of excuse the democrats can come up with now!

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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