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State worker who
uploaded sensitive
information resigns
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A state
employee who uploaded
sensitive personal infor-
mation on at least 15,300
Oregonians to a personal
cloud
storage
account
resigned this week, according
to the Oregon Department of
Revenue.
The employee uploaded
about
60
spreadsheets
containing more than half a
million records, including
names, addresses and Social
Security numbers, to a
personal account on Google
Drive, Google’s cloud storage
service, Feb. 21.
The information was
used by the department to
reconcile accounts, but the
employee sought to upload
it to a personal account
because he wanted to use the
spreadsheets and queries “as
templates for his work prod-
ucts at a future employer,” the
department said in a prepared
statement in response to ques-
tions from the EO/Pamplin
Capital Bureau this week.
The spreadsheets were
the work product of a former
department employee and
used “complex queries” to
gather data and do calcula-
tions, the department said.
The employee used a
state computer to upload the
information to Google Drive,
which can be accessed from
different computers with
appropriate account creden-
tials.
The upload was detected
by department officials in
a routine review of system
logs.
During the investigation,
the unidentified employee
provided the department
with his Google login
and all agency files were
deleted from the personal
account, and IT security staff
confirmed there were no
backups, nor application data,
left in the user’s Google Drive
account, the department said.
The Oregon State Police
determined the incident was
Former Navy captain setting his
sights on governor’s mansion
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
“non-criminal in nature”
during the early stages of the
state’s investigation.
Department
represen-
tatives said March 23 that
the information of roughly
36,000 people could have
been compromised by the
act, but said Friday that
the spreadsheets contained
“numerous
duplicate
records.” The department
sent direct notifications by
mail to about 15,300 people.
The department is also
paying for identity theft
protection services for those
people whose information
was included in the upload
“on the off chance the files
were accessed in a way we
couldn’t detect,” Gasperini
said.
The individual notifica-
tions and recovery services
are costing the department
$28,810.
The department also says
that there’s no evidence to
suggest that the personal
information was shared
beyond the employee’s
personal account.
The incident was detected
Feb. 23, and the employee
was placed on paid adminis-
trative leave three days later,
but the revenue department
didn’t issue a public notice of
the incident until March 23.
“The investigation into the
incident itself was complete
within a few days, but
combing through what was
removed from the drive to
determine how many people
could potentially impacted
took much longer,” Gasperini
said by way of explanation.
“... As soon as we were
relatively confident in the
refined group of records,
which was March 22, we
finalized the press release
that was issued March 23,
the next day. We were also
working on matching records
with contact information so
we could move forward with
individual, direct notification
through the ID recovery
services vendor as soon as
possible after the general
public notification.”
Greg Wooldridge is hoping
to use his sterling military
career to propel him into
Oregon’s highest office.
Wooldridge, one of 10
Republicans running for
governor in Oregon, visited
Hermiston on Friday. If
elected, he said he hopes to
heal the urban-rural divide, to
heal the school systems, the
PERS system and the lack of
trust in Oregon’s government.
The former Navy captain
has never held elected office.
But he points to his experi-
ence running a naval airbase
in the San Joaquin Valley
— including services for
thousands of families living
on-base and billions of dollars
in aircraft assets — that earned
the Presidential Installation of
Excellence Award for being
“the best Navy base in the
world.”
“It was the same kind of
span of control in working
with people and trying to get
good outcomes and managing
a budget,” he said.
He said he is also the
only person to serve as flight
leader of the Navy’s Blue
Angels three different times,
working to elevate morale and
performance until they were
performing 400-mile-per-hour
maneuvers 18 inches apart
instead of 36 inches.
He later worked with
FedEx to elevate the compa-
ny’s air freight operations
and now trains companies
on elevating performance.
He hopes to elevate the state
government’s performance
by setting clear expectations
for department heads and
“bringing the legislature
together.”
“I don’t like the term ‘drain
the swamp’ because I don’t
think there’s a swamp,” he
said. “I think they’re good
people.”
Wooldridge said beyond
holding departments more
accountable, he also believes
that it would be good for the
Democratic-controlled legis-
lature to know that any legis-
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“The Beaverton Police
came and they were so good
and handled things so well,
but that was a wake-up call
to me that these issues are out
there,” he said.
Wooldridge said despite
choosing to settle in the
Portland area after the Navy
(he grew up in Illinois), he
does want to look out for
the interests of rural Oregon
through supporting agriculture
and better management of
Oregon’s forests.
“City folks want to enjoy
the natural resources in our
way and then say nobody else
can touch them,” he said.
Wooldridge’s lack of expe-
rience as an elected official
and his urban address might
create some barriers toward
winning over rural Republi-
cans in Oregon, but he said
he “absolutely” believes that a
Republican can beat Governor
Kate Brown this year and that
he is the one to do it.
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Occasional rain
a defined benefit to a defined
contribution, more like — and
this is a dirty word with some
of the unions — but more like
a 401(k),” he said.
When asked about immi-
gration, Wooldridge said
he understood that Oregon
depends on immigrant labor
for agriculture. But he said
the government needed to
find ways for those jobs to be
filled without a system that
encourages people to come
into the country illegally and
be exploited because of their
status. He also said he would
work as governor to end
Oregon’s sanctuary status.
“I think it’s a public safety
issue, because people are
being let back on the street that
shouldn’t be on the street,” he
said.
He also said he’s passionate
about improving mental
health services. He got choked
up recounting a story when he
saw a woman standing on the
edge of a bridge, preparing to
jump. Wooldridge and another
passerby managed to pull her
down and called the police.
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lation they pass will be headed
to the desk of a Republican
governor.
“When they want to get
something through, they’re
going to have to talk about it,”
he said.
At the same time, he said
although he holds conserva-
tive ideals he is a “realist”
about getting things done and
doesn’t feel bound to always
follow the party line.
Infrastructure, the Public
Employees
Retirement
System and education are
Wooldridge’s three main
focuses.
He wants to provide the
funding to decrease class sizes
at the elementary school so
that children don’t get frus-
trated with school early, then
follow up with getting more
hands-on classes at the high
school level that help motivate
teens to stay in school and
graduate with “labor-ready”
skills like welding or computer
programming.
Wooldridge said the state
also needs to step up its
investments in transportation
infrastructure.
“You
can’t
move
commerce without working
infrastructure,” he said.
He also wants to tackle the
growing PERS deficit.
“I want to take PERS from
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