Worker said he downloaded data to work from home (fwd)

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http://www.tennessean.com/article/20131216/NEWS/312160048/1972/NEWS02?nclick_check=1&utm_content=buffer58453

By Joey Garrison and Chas Sisk
The Tennessean
Dec. 16, 2013

A state employee who resigned last week told investigators that he 
downloaded data on 6,300 Nashville teachers so he could work from home, 
despite having been warned to keep his computer secure.

Steven T. Hunter, a 24-year-old former information technology worker for 
the state Department of Treasury, told the Tennessee Bureau of 
Investigation that he emailed information from a state computer system 
using a personal account “to perform his duties at home,” TBI spokeswoman 
Kristin Helm said Monday.

But a personnel file released Monday shows that Hunter had been 
reprimanded, in November, for leaving a state laptop on his desk after 
work, violating rules meant to protect state computers and data. That 
incident, combined with other warnings about interoffice communications, 
appear to have led to Hunter’s resignation Thursday.

The Department of Treasury and the TBI announced over the weekend that 
Hunter had illegally uploaded a Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System 
file containing Social Security numbers, full names and dates of birth on 
active Metro Nashville teachers from a work email to a personal email 
address before leaving state government.

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