OH: Official loses vacation days after data theft

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071010/UPDATES01/71010008/1002/NEWS01

COLUMBUS (AP) -- A supervisor for the state's massive new online financial 
system will lose a week of vacation over the theft of a computer backup 
device carrying the Social Security numbers of thousands of Ohioans and 
other sensitive data, officials said.

Jerry Miller, 49, a team leader for Ohio's new payroll and accounting 
system, didn't follow an order given nearly three months before the theft 
to move the sensitive data from a common computer drive to a secure 
directory.

Miller understood the order but did not relay it to the employees he 
supervised, and they continued to store sensitive information on the 
computer drive, according to an investigation by the Department of 
Administrative Services.

The backup device was stolen in June from the car of Justin Ilovar, 22, an 
intern at the state's Office of Management and Budget. Ilovar had been 
responsible for taking the device home overnight for safekeeping.

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