By Mark Niquette, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Oct. 10--A state worker is losing a week of vacation for failing to follow an order to secure Social Security numbers and other sensitive data that ended up on a computer backup tape stolen from a state intern's car in June.

By Jim Provance, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Jun. 21--COLUMBUS -- Officials have determined that the personal information of nearly a quarter of a million Ohio taxpayers and lottery winners is contained in a state computer data storage device that was stolen last week.

A missing computer backup tape containing personal information on state employees also holds the names and Social Security numbers of 225,000 taxpayers, Gov. Ted Strickland said.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A 22-year-old intern was given the responsibility of safeguarding the personal information of thousands of state employees, a security procedure that ended up backfiring.

By Jim Provance, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Jun. 16--COLUMBUS -- A thief made away with a state government computer backup "storage device" containing the names and COLUMBUS numbers of more than 64,000 state employees, prompting Gov. Ted Strickland to issue an alert yesterday.