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Backups tapes a backdoor for identity thieves

April 28, 2005

Robert Lemos
SecurityFocus
 

In many cases, low paid workers are handling sensitive tapes, but only a small fraction of companies are securing the data with encryption.

Large companies are reconsidering their security and backup policies after a handful of financial and information-technology companies have admitted that tapes holding unencrypted customer data have gone missing.

Last week, trading firm Ameritrade acknowledged that the company that handles its backup data had lost a tape containing information on about 200,000 customers. The financial firm is now revising its backup policies and, in the interim, has halted all movement of backup tapes, a spokesperson said this week.

 

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Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 June 2006 )
 

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