[Dataloss] Iron Mountain loses more backup tapes

[security curmudgeon]

Courtesy of WK and ISN:


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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.