I guess state employees in Ohio are on a roll. It was recently discovered that in addition to the 225,000 Ohio taxpayers whose personal information is on a missing computer backup tape, a laptop computer was stolen from another state employee.
On the stolen laptop is the social security numbers and other personal information belonging to 439 injured workers. Talk about adding insult to injury! Now, in addition to being injured, they can worry about someone stealing their identity!
The data is reported to be password-protected but that is probably not much protection if the laptop falls into the hands of tech-savvy crooks, and trust me, there are a lot of them around these days.
There appears to be no end in sight for incidents like this. As long as these big companies and government agencies continue with their lax practices concerning personal information, we will keep hearing stories like this.
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