22-year-old Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers
A 22-year-old intern said today he’s the ’scapegoat’ for the loss of over 800,000 social security numbers – or roughly 7.3% of the people in the entire state of Ohio
Ha. Sucks to be that intern.
‘The extent of my instructions on what to do after I removed the tapes from the tape drive and took the tapes out of the building was, bring these back tomorrow.’ Three months into his $10.50-an-hour internship, he left the tapes in his car overnight — unencrypted — and they were stolen. Interestingly, the intern reports to a $125-an-hour consultant — and was advised not to tell the police that sensitive information had been stolen, which initially resulted in his becoming the prime suspect for the theft.
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