http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=5915 By Chris Mellor Techworld 02 May 2006 Accident-prone Iron Mountain has mislaid more backup tapes containing personal information. On April 6th, a driver reported that backup tapes belonging to the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and another customer had gone missing. The LIRR tapes contained personal information about 17,000 past and current employees - virtually everyone who has every worked for the concern. The second customer's tapes did not contain personal information. So far no evidence of theft has been found; the tapes have apparently just been mislaid. The LIRR is providing a paid-for one year account with a credit check and identity theft monitoring service - a costly exercise for 17,000 people. Iron Mountain has previously lost backup tapes belonging to Times Warner in March, 2005. These covered 600,000 current and past employees. _________________________________ Attend the Black Hat Briefings and Training, Las Vegas July 29 - August 3 2,500+ international security experts from 40 nations, 10 tracks, no vendor pitches. www.blackhat.com
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