June 18, 2007

Personal Data, Including SSNs, of 64,000 Ohio State Workers Stolen

A 22-year-old intern was given the responsibility of safeguarding the personal information of thousands of state employees, a security procedure that ended up backfiring. The names and Social Security numbers of all 64,000 Ohio state employees were stolen last weekend from a state agency intern who left a backup data storage device in his car, Gov. Ted Strickland said.

Data on 64,000 Ohio state workers stolen, Associated Press, June 16, 2007.