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Data breach puts 4300 OH state workers at risk of ID theft
Posted on Mar 1, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Over 4,000 Ohia state workers have their SSN put at risk in a data breach. Network World reports that the company responsible, MedCo, waitied 6 weeks to report the breach. A laptop was stolen from a Medco employee’s home on Dec 28th and it wasn’t reported until Feb 8th.
The Ohio state attorney general's office is investigating the terms of a contract between the state Department of Administrative Services and a New Jersey-based prescription drug benefits provider after a laptop computer containing the unencrypted Social Security numbers and birth dates of about 4,300 state workers and 300 of their dependents was stolen in late December.
Officials of the Franklin Lakes, N.J.-based company met with state DAS officials on Feb. 16 and agreed to provide free credit- and fraud-monitoring services to the affected workers for one year to help them watch their credit records for potential illegal activity, he said. The DAS announced the incident and its aftermath in a statement last week.
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