Saturday, June 16, 2007

Stolen Ohio Tape: More Personal Info Than Thought

William Hershey writes in The Dayton Daily News:

After learning that additional personal information might be on a stolen state backup computer tape, Gov. Ted Strickland late Friday called for the State Inspector General to investigate the circumstances surrounding the theft and the state's response to it.

"...We have determined that information pertaining to participants in the state's pharmacy benefits management program, including information such as names, Social Security numbers, addresses and phone numbers of employees and the names and Social Security numbers of their dependents, may be contained in the device," Strickland said in a press release.

Ron Sylvester, spokesman for the Department of Administrative Services, said on Saturday that a preliminary analysis indicated that more than 50,000 employees and about 75,000 dependents could be affected.

Other files with sensitive information may also be on the tape, Sylvester said.

More here.

(Props, Pogo Was Right.)

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