Iron Mountain Loses More Tapes
Well, I wondered how long it would be before we heard about another unauthorized disclosure, theft, or loss, of privacy data. It had been a few days, but here we go.
Steven Martin writes in InformationWeek:
City National Bank has become the second company in two months to experience a loss of backup tapes in transit by Iron Mountain Inc. The Los Angeles-based bank disclosed Thursday that two tapes containing sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, account numbers, and other customer information, were lost during transport to a secure storage facility.
The bank said the data was formatted to make the tapes difficult to read without highly specialized skills, but declines to say if they were encrypted. It said there's no evidence that data on the tapes has been compromised or misused.
Iron Mountain said it lost the tapes in April. The tapes were in a small container of backup tapes belonging to a Texas-based Internet services provider that hosts applications for City National and other banks. The incident has been investigated by federal law-enforcement officials and no evidence has been found of identity-theft relating to the loss.
In May, Time Warner revealed that tapes containing data, including names and Social Security numbers, on 600,000 current and former employees disappeared in March while being shipped to an offsite storage facility operated by Iron Mountain.
posted by Fergie @ 7/08/2005 04:20:00 PM
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