Another day, another major data breach: This one comes from Ohio, where a disk carrying personal information on all 64,000 state workers was boosted from a state worker’s automobile.
However, Gov. Ted Strickland assures one and all that there is nothing to worry about here because it takes “special equipment” to access the information on the disk and we all know bad guys aren’t allowed to have special equipment.
From the Associated Press:
Strickland said the Ohio employee mistakenly left the disk, a backup, in a vehicle parked outside an apartment Sunday.
The employee is being investigated, but there is no reason to believe there was a security breach, he said. He also issued an executive order that would change state procedures for handling the data.
Yup, time to close the barn door, all right.
If misery truly does love company, at least the Ohio employees can commiserate with their counterparts at Pfizer, which is dealing with its own allergic reaction to data control today.
