The state employee fired over a massive data breach by the Georgia Secretary of State's Office said Tuesday "it was just a kick in the teeth" to be blamed for a gaffe involving more than 6 million voters' Social Security numbers and other private data.
Longtime state programmer Gary Cooley took the brunt of the blame in a report released late Monday by the office and the state Department of Human Resources —the first full accounting by the state of what happened.
"I was very disappointed, because of the fact that I have put in 20 years in that office night and day working on large, successful, high-profile projects," Cooley said in his first comments about the report, which accused him of flouting office protocol and policy in a series of events that led to the breach.
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