[Dataloss] (update) OH: Almost 67,000 more names on stolen tape
    lyger 
    lyger at attrition.org
       
    Mon Sep 10 22:01:31 UTC 2007
    
    
  
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/09/10/moredata.html
The names and Social Security numbers of more than 66,600 more 
individuals, including former state workers, were on a computer backup 
tape stolen from a state intern's car in June, officials said today.
The revelation brings to more than 1.3 million the number of individuals, 
businesses and other entities whose sensitive information is on the tape. 
The new names evidently were missed in an extensive state review of a 
duplicate of the missing device.
The state will pay for one year of identity-theft protection and 
prevention services for those individuals. Already more than 212,000 have 
enrolled at a cost to the state of nearly $2 million.
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