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More Ramsey County workers told personal data was stolen

Last update: October 1, 2007 - 9:32 PM

Another 380 Ramsey County employees and retirees have been told that their names and Social Security numbers were stolen this past summer in Ohio, bringing the total to more than 900.

The data were on a computer storage device that was stolen from the car of an intern for the state of Ohio who had worked with Accenture, a consulting firm that had worked on a 2001 Ramsey County payroll project.

Last week, 564 employees and retirees who work for Ramsey County were notified that their Social Security numbers were stolen.

There is no evidence that any identity thefts have occurred as a result of the stolen data, the county said. It's unlikely that anyone would be able to access the encrypted and compressed data, county manager Dave Twa said.

Twa said identity theft insurance is available to the people whose data were stolen.

"We want to do everything possible to protect our employees," he said.

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