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Add IBM to the growing list of ostensibly tech-savvy organizations that has been bitten by its failure to encrypt sensitive information. A company spokesman has confirmed that computer tapes containing personal information on former employees has gone missing. An outside vendor was transporting them from one IBM facility to …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Missing IBM Data

    Have they tried EBay?

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  2. James Anderson

    Sales Campaign ?

    Could be a plot to persuade gullable hackers to invest $20,000

    for tape drives, controllers neccesary to read the tapes.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    This happened to me, and our employer (who didn't lose the data, but their payroll contractor did, who forgot to read the security bit of the contract allegedly) and we got free accounts on a credit watch service. With the amount of data going missing me thinks there's money in credit checking!

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  4. Rob Foster

    Absolutely hilarious...

    I was at an IBM presentation just this morning where IBM was naming names of companies that failed to encrypt tape data and were burned when they were lost/stolen.

    Makes my day...

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Tapejacked!

    Who was the other party to the car accident, and are they under investigation?

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