Analysis: Washington state’s response to data breach affecting 1.4M people is stunningly callous
February 9, 2021 at 8:40 pm
Not our fault. And good luck, you’re on your own.
These are essentially two main messages from Washington state government to its citizens and those affected by the recent Washington State Auditor data breach.
As someone who has managed data breaches and security response situations for years, I’m genuinely floored by the tone and (lack of) actions in the state’s response so far.
Compared to other major data breaches, the state is staking out one of the strongest disavowal of responsibility we’ve seen. And its response to the citizens whose data it was entrusted to protect is stunningly callous in its inadequacy.
Washington Potato Company lays off 62 workers in Warden after fire
The layoff notice was posted on the Washington State Employment Security Department and effective as of Friday, Feb. 5.
Credit: Charles H. Featherstone
The Washington Potato Co. facility in Warden still smolders the next morning and smoke fills the air after a fire broke out in a potato dehydrator the afternoon of Jan. 21, prompting a response from fire departments across Grant and neighboring Adams counties. Author: Charles H. Feathersone (Columbia Basin Herald) Published: 11:52 AM PST February 9, 2021 Updated: 11:55 AM PST February 9, 2021
WARDEN, Wash. Pasco-based Oregon Potato Company announced Friday it was permanently laying off 62 employees at Warden-based Washington Potato Company, which caught fire in late January, as reported by KREM 2 s news partner the Columbia Basin Herald.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Local representatives Dan Newhouse and Cathy McMorris Rogers are warning President Biden not to appoint Washington state’s former Employment Security Department commissioner to serve the U.S. Department of Labor.
Newhouse and McMorris Rogers, along with Representative Jaimie Herrera Beutler (R), sent a letter to Biden expressing their concern over appointing Suzi Levine to Interim Assistant Secretary of the Employment and Training Administration.
Levine faced criticism in her position as the head of Washington’s ESD after the department was defrauded of over $600 million by Nigerian scammers under her leadership.