Well, we get word (thx Chris) that the Georgia state department of human resources suffered a data theft last week. Apparently an external hard drive with the personal information of former and current employees stored on it was stolen “by an unauthorized person”. They did not release the number of affect but, just to put it in perspective there are currently 19,000 employees with DHR.
From Atlanta Journal Constitution:
The agency sent letters to all employees affected by the security breach, urging them to review all credit and other financial records.
DHR officials said there is no evidence the information is being used fraudulently, and the theft remains under investigation.
The incident alarmed employees and former employees.
“On the personal side, I’m concerned that they had this kind of breach,” said Jed Nitzberg, a former DHR spokesman.
He added, “I’ve already been in touch with one company about buying fraud monitoring and information protection services as an extra precaution because of this. I’m worried this could come back to cause real damage months from now.”
Gov. Sonny Perdue said through a spokesman that the theft heightens concerns about computer security in state government.
“The governor is not happy about where the government is on this,” said spokesman Bert Brantley.
To say nothing of the fact that they are running Netscape Enterprise 6.0 as their web server.
Read on.
I guess they are worried that the general public will find out how unqualified these workers are to pass judgements and to have the athority to rule over others.