State asks for help to find stolen data

Authorities seeking tips from 1,000 people living near intern's Hilliard home

Saturday, July 7, 2007 3:30 AM

COLUMBUS, OHIO

Authorities are turning to the neighbors of a state intern for help in finding a backup computer data tape containing sensitive, personal information.
Hilliard police and the State Highway Patrol have handed out or mailed a postcard to nearly 1,000 residents within a four-block radius of where the tape was stolen early June 11 from the intern's car.

State officials continue to say "they have no evidence that the tape has been used."

Even so, affected people continue to enroll in the identity-theft prevention and protection service that the state is offering.

As of yesterday morning, nearly 59,000 people had started the enrollment process, but the cost to the state has been reduced from $9.75 per person to $9.25.

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**NOTE** Something To Think About...

1. They have no evidence that the tape has been used because they have NO WAY to find out if it has been used in the other 4 areas of identity theft!"

2. The affected people continue to enroll in the identity-theft prevention and protection service that the state is offering and don't know that it will ONLY alert them if the theif uses their identity for financial reasons.

3. As of yesterday morning, nearly 59,000 people had started the enrollment process, but the cost to the state has been reduced from $9.75 per person to $9.25 and will NOT alert them if the theif uses their identity in the other 4 areas of identity theft.

4. What will they do when things start showing up months or even years from now because of this?