Here's the timeline on the Ohio data theft
According to Keith Dailey, spokesman for Gov. Ted Strickland, and Pari Sabety, director of the state Office of Budget and Management, here is the timeline of events that followed Sunday's theft of personal state employee data from an intern's car in a Hilliard parking lot:
Sometime after 8 p.m. Sunday, June 10: Theft from employee's vehicle of data storage device.
Monday: Employee reports theft to supervisor. Supervisor instructs employee to report to police. Supervisor advises Ohio Administrative Knowledge System software project manager. OAKS is a project to upgrade the state's computer system including payroll, budget and accounting information. Project manager informs chief information officer of theft, unsure of risk. Chief information officer informs chief privacy officer and requests that he coordinate.
Monday through Thursday: OAKS project manager analyze more than 338,000 files using a backup device to assess level of risk.
Tuesday 3 p.m.: Chief information officer informs Office of Budget and Management Director Pari Sabety.
Tuesday 3:30 p.m.: OAKS project manager reports that employee names and Social Security numbers were present; unsure how many employees were affected.
Wednesday 9 a.m.: OBM Director Sabety informs governor's office senior staff.
who were present at morning meeting
Thursday 10:47 a.m.: OAKS project manager informs chief privacy officer and chief information officer that he has determined that all 64,467 state employees names and Social Security numbers are included on stolen device
Thursday, noon: OBM Director Sabety meets with Department of Administrative Services Director Hugh Quill and chief information officer to brief them.
Thursday, 1:30 p.m.: Gov. Strickland informed. Meets with various department heads to decide how to proceed.
Thursday, 2:30 p.m.: Strickland asks Ohio Highway Patrol to investigate.
Today, 10 a.m.: Statehouse news conference to announce details. Quill sends e-mail to state employees notifying them. Strickland says it "would be very difficult" for a thief to access personal information on the stolen device.
Strickland says a letter will be sent to every employee's home, including about 3,200 from southwestern Ohio.
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Post a Comment*An intern was entrusted with a storage device that contained sensitive information? Is this the best the state can do???
This is just what we should expect from democrats.
as a state employee myself, i'm beyond outraged at the incompetence and ineptitude of the strickland administration. allowing an intern to drive around with data like that? are you kidding me? stricklands cavalier attitude toward the situation is what gets me the most. any motivated high school kid could probably crack the encryption on that hard drive. this is truly outrageous. thanks gov strickland!!!!
HAD ENOUGH?
VOTE REPUBLICAN!
OK. A timeline according to the state is a decent start. Some filling in of the blanks now needs to occur.
Assuming that this was in an apartment complex parking lot, was there a string of thefts, or did this car get magically hit by serial selection? I noticed that the police report did not include vandalism. Seems kind of convenient.
No windows were broken?
Almost every 22 year-old I know has CDs in their cars. Were any of those taken? How is it that no CDs were reported stolen, but the one thing a thief can't use was?
More in-depth questions need to be asked.
Good start with the state-supplied timeline.
By the way, it was an entire day and a half before a potential breach of security was reported to the OBM? There are some real problems with the lack of speed that things happened here.
"...This is just what we should expect from democrats...."
Yes, you can always expect open, honest, transparent disclosure. Even when unfavorable.
Isn't it refreshing to know when problems arise, there is a quick response and NO, katrina, COVER UP !
Certainly a far cry from that demonstrated by 'taft', noe, fondling folley, cunningham, scooter, bush, deters the cheater, etc.
They certainly didn't claim a 'terrorist threat attack' so they could close/lock the doors to skew the results.
If a wrong wingnut whacko will steal a Democratic yard sign, they certainly will steal Democratic controled electronic documents. BEWARE WATERGATE !
Yes, open, honest, transparent conduct is "...just what we should expect from democrats...."
PATHETIC !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
Who is this intern? And what connection to moveon.org and international ANSEWER does this intern have???? (if at all,of course)
This is ridiculous. Most adult operations use daily off-site backup of their work and don't entrust it to a rotating schedule of "interns" to take home ...
Reverend Strickland needs to explain why personal data on 65,000 state employees is being handed over to an intern, and permit him to leave it in car overnight for anyone to come and take. This does not constitute adequate security of personal information. Reverend Strickland has some explaining to do.
Note to jon cRaig, caRl weiseR, malia Rulon, and howaRd wilkinson:
You guys might want to stop kissing up to every Repugnicant official and taxpayer-funded political hack on their payroll. Between the immigration fiasco, the illegal war in Iraq, the jail fiasco here, compared to the rebirth Cincinnati and Ohio are undergoing with Democratic leadership, and there isn't going to be a Repugnicant Party by the end of the year.
When City Council is all-Dem, when Chabot, Schmidt, and DeWine all lose in 2008, whose press releases will you mindleslly publish as news? Who will write your stories for you?
Good luck getting your calls returned by Democratic elected officials. They'll do it because they have to, but, trust me, Congressman Driehaus and others will be far more eager to talk with people who haven't spent their adult lives trying to smear them.
Hey this story is not about the war in Iraqi or a hurricane that destroyed half of a state. So stop changing the story here.
The story here is about how it is a joke that an intern had this device and it was stolen. It is a joke that 5 days later our Gov. asked the Highway Patrol to investigate. My guess is that someone should have started an indepth investigation a week ago. No matter how you spin this story it is not about Bush. It is about a big screw up that could cause thousands in OHIO alot of grief. There was a major srew up and it happened under Stricklands watch. They were slow to react and now they have alot of explaining to do.
Please spare us the spin about war or hurricans when the story has nothing to do with that.
"....Please spare us the spin about war or hurricans when the story has nothing to do with that...."
Does hurricans = hurricanes ?
Typical wRong wingnut whacko spewing the elephant dung propaganda !
Spare us, your spin !
Where were you when 'heartless" published SS # on the clerks sight ?
Where were you when 'bushwell" published SS# on SOS site ?
This argument is politically motivated and it is quite appropriate to reveal political hacks with misleading missions !
PATHETIC HYPOCRITES !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
To fill in some of the conspiracy theorists in the crowd. The intern's car was one of several cars broken into that night. It was a apartment complex.
As someone with some personal knowledge of the situation, the intern was a victim of circumstance and poor administration. Leave the poor kid alone.
BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gawd! Imagine, the only dirt to throw at Strickland is this pathetic news piece. Oh, how juicy! More stories like this and Strickland is guaranteed 4 more yrs, public doesnt give a ###. Poor employees, get a real job.
anon 7:08
if by 'circumstance', you mean "his/her own stupidity, then yes. you are right.
while you can attempt to place blame on this ignorant and incompetent administration, the intern was blatantly irresponsible, and as someone who was directly affected by his actions, it's a big issue. he/she really messed up.
Great. Now that this story and the one about Mrs. Coleman gets aired, the news media will feel free to stay quiet on Governor Strickland's address to terror-supporting CAIR.
"As someone with some personal knowledge of the situation, the intern was a victim of circumstance and poor administration. Leave the poor kid alone."
Sounds like the same Clinton spin when the national security hard drives went missing at Los Alamos.
I bet the "Poor Kid" shows up to work with a Che T shirt
6:27 You should not speak of political motivation. Look in the mirror. Everyone who screws up rep. and dem. should pay the price. You seem to only want to hold rep. responsible when there is a mistake. I want everyone to have to do the right thing. I want everyone who screws up to be investigated. Please tell us that you want everyone to be held to the same standard. Please spare us the same old lines. We may not agree on everything but please tell us that if Gov. Strickland makes a mistake he should be held responsbile.
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"...I want everyone who screws up to be investigated. Please tell us that you want everyone to be held to the same standard..."
So, you are a leader to get bush and cheney impeached ?
PATHETIC HYPOCRITE !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
12:39 Let me repeat myself.
"I want everyone to be investigated and held responsible for their actions" You seem to only want one group held accountable.
You have proven to all of us that you, are the "Pathetic Hypocrite"
"...You have proven to all of us that you, are the...."
So, you are a leader to get bush and cheney impeached ?
PATHETIC HYPOCRITE !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
I am still bothered by the lack of in-depth reporting. It seems as though the reporters in this scandal are only reporting the daily "breaking disclosures" of what is on the disk and swallowing the words of the administration. Here's a few things readers like me want to know:
1) There was a poster who said that there were many cars broken into in the lot that night, but I would rather take the police dept.s' word instead of a blogger who might be a Strickland plant. Has any reporter reported the break-in circumstances, why vandalism wasn't reported etc.?
2) Why does the administration, a week and a half after the theft, still have to disclose what they are finding to be on the backup. As a former system administrator from a county-wide system (where we had a more sophisticated back-up system a decade ago than the state had last week), I could pull an instant list informing me of everything contained on every one of my back-up media devices.
3) Everyone just seems to accept the offhand comment that this was a procedure in place since 2002 (read: the Taft administration). If it was, taxpayers need to know what mental midget made that decision, if he/she is still working for us and an in-depth investigations should go back 5 years to discover any other potential problems. I hope that the "It's been in place since 2002" is not a smokescreen that the current administration is using to pass the buck. Requests for procedure manuals and anecdotal information should lead us to the truth here.
It disturbs me that many of the Strickland sycophants are willing to minimize the impact this issue has as well as turn a blind eye to a potential cover-up.
If this is nothing more than what the administration says it is, then I am willing to give Strickland and the guys a pass as long as no harm comes from this. If, on the other hand, a real reporter takes an hour to ask some questions to get to the bottom of the situation as to circumstances of the break-in, why the administration still doesn't know what is on the tape, and the origins of the "take-home policy" readers and news consumers can be a little more satisfied with what is going on.
Let me repeat for the slow of thought. Investigate everyone you want(Bush and Cheney are part of everyone). I know everyone may be a hard idea for you to understand. Impeachment is another step that I would be for if what needs to be proven is proven.
Now will you ever admit that a dem. should be investigated or held responsible for something he/she has done? So far I guess the only people you want held to a certain standard is Bush Cheney.
One last time. Will you hold EVERYONE(rep. and dem.) to the same standard???
Why in the world hasn't the state offered - very visibly - a $100,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of the tape and arrest of the thief.
I seriously doubt that the tape would be unrecovered for very long. Girlfriends, firends, parents, siblings etc. would give up the goods for that kind of cash.
And the best part - it would save the state hundreds of thousands of dollars in identity theft protection services.
But no one ever accused this administration of 1) acting swiftly, or 2) being smart.
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