[79979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ameritrade warns 200,000 clients of lost data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Tue Apr 19 15:44:59 2005
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:44:28 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050419.122906.5555.406515@webmail25.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
"A total of four backup tapes were found to be missing from a box
that was damaged during shipping between two facilities, the company said.
Three of the four tapes have been recovered at the shipper's facility.
So, who else thinks that this is some sort of criminal negligence, puting
that kind of sensitive information in such a risky position?
I think that these conpanies (lexis nexis, ameritrade, whoever) should be
held *criminally* liable for things like this.
How long until something like the social security administration has an
announcement like this? Or, Experian? Transunion? D&B?
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
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> Gee, what a surprise -- another one:
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> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7561268/
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> Anyone wanna bet that tomorrow, this number will have
> grown "after further examination"...?
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> - ferg
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
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