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Ohio Official Docked Vacation Time For Stolen Tape

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-beach-for-you dept.

Lucas123 writes "The missing tape, stolen from an intern's car, contained data on all 64,467 state employees, 19,388 former employees and 47,245 Ohio taxpayers. The state believes the incident will cost them $3 million. So after four months of deliberation, the Ohio Department of Administrative Services announced today that they decided to take a week's vacation away from Jerry Miller, their payroll team leader and the guy in charge of the missing data."

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  1. Not right! by Chris_Mir · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Admittedly it was not smart of the guy to leave the tape in the car. But changing procedures concerning handling these kind of data, is like saying something was wrong with the system from the beginning. Why not take a weeks vacation from the guy who is responsible for the procedures?

  2. Hell In A Handbasket. by chicklet427 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mishandling sensitive data of over 100,000 people resulting in it being stolen = lose 1 weeks vacation pay

    Downloading some MP3's off P2P = lose $222,000 to RIAA