Ohio Plans To Encrypt After Data Breach

Slashdot reports that in response to the theft of a backup tape containing personal information on nearly 130,000 residents, current and former employees and businesses in Ohio was stolen from the car of a government intern last June, the Ohio state government has agreed to buy 60,000 licenses of McAfee Inc's SafeBoot encryption software.

Details on the distribution of the encryption software and the financial impact of the loss of the data to the state are given in an article published yesterday in COMPUTERWORLD.