The news from the Ohio security breach becomes worse. Governor Strickland disclosed more information about what the storage device contained:

“Strickland said the device contained the names and case numbers of the state’s 84,000 welfare recipients, who face “a remote threat of identity theft,” and the names and federal tax identification number of vendors that receive payroll deduction payments from the state - about 1,200 records. Sixteen of those records contain banking information, he said.”

link: Ohio welfare recipients’ data also at risk

There is no indication of whether the state will cover the costs of credit monitoring for these welfare recipients. The state will provide credit monitoring for all the state employees. - The costs of this security breach keeps mounting. Additional credit monitoring will place the fall-out from this incident at well over a million dollars.

Catherine Forsythe

[tags]ohio, data breach, privacy, security, identity theft, credit monitoring, welfare recipients, governor strickland, financial fall-out[/tags]