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Intern cries scapegoat after losing tape
Posted by Fired Fred on July 25, 2007 4:36 PM
Poor little ex-Ohio intern. Jared Ilovar left a data tape in his car, and some thoughtless bastard stole it. Shame the tape had tons of stuff on it that will make ID theft as easy as surfing the Intarwebs.
No one's real surprised that a 22-year-old could be pretty thoughtless about other people's property. This fired guy is surprised that he's being blamed for being so stupidly careless...
"I am the intern who was made the scapegoat in the situation surrounding the theft of a data tape," Ilovar said.He wants his internship back. That'll happen at about the time his old boss, the governor of the state, gives up his primo Ohio State football tickets without a fight. As in not today, tomorrow, or after that, ever.
He said he never was instructed on how "to properly secure, store or watch over the data tapes at night."
"The extent of my instructions on what to do was, 'bring these back tomorrow,'" Ilovar said.
Yeah, lucky for me I was one of the poor bastards who had information on that tape. I received a letter from the state of Ohio informing me that a database containing voter information, including my SS # had been 'compromised'. Nice to know this is the reason I now need to worry that someone could use my info to ruin my credit or worse. Thanks Jared!
Posted on: August 8, 2007 7:10 AM
I never received a notice that my name WAS on the list of stolen data!
To find out if Ilovar has lost your data, go to: http://www.ohio.gov/idprotect to see if the same has happened to you. If you are on the list, you will get a free year of Debix fraud protection.
Late June I had an unathorized charge on a credit card. Last Friday, I received a call from my bank that my debit card was used to make a $1. charge to comcast late Thurs. night.
I was lucky they caught it as soon as they did!
(The bank told me that thieves steal a bunch of card numbers, and test them w/ small charges to see which ones are active, so they can clean out your account.)
Maybe a coincidence. The timing is very coincidental.
Why would someone steal a device if they didn't know what it was, or how to use it?
....wondering if this so-called "theft" was planned...?
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Posted on: October 7, 2007 3:08 PM