COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - 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 Friday. [The Article]
These people are on CrAcK! Straight up crack. Who in the world lets ANYONE store this type of sensitive data on a thumb drive? Especially an intern. If you do store this data outside your network (thumb drive, external drive or LAPTOP) you seriously need to use Encryption.
People, this isn’t hard. It’s even built into windows (Right click - Advanced - and put a freakin check in the encryption check box). I personally do this for anything I don’t want someone on the outside seeing. An Access DB I’m working on, a Visual Studio project - anything.
Good grief people - THINK. Smell the roses, coffee and the horse manure. Data at rest is a problem and this type of situation should not be happening.
