[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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