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follow up on Ohio State backup tape loss
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:40:12 -0500
From the Columbus Dispatch on July 14, 2007 http://tinyurl.com/yojy58 Workers on the state's new payroll and accounting system were told in April to remove Social Security numbers and other sensitive information from the main network but didn't do it, records released yesterday suggest. As a result, the data ended up on a computer backup tape that was stolen late June 10 or early June 11 from a state intern's car, affecting more than 1 million people or businesses and costing the state an estimated $2.2 million so far. ... Officials have said it was Miller who started the practice two or three years ago of sending backup data home nightly with interns on a rotating basis. The idea was to keep a copy of the data away from the office in case of a disaster, but the project policy last updated in April 2002 clearly said the information was to go home with the network administrator ... _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 213 million compromised records in 720 incidents over 7 years.
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