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Idaho Power Co. - answering my own question
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 17:13:17 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/idaho/stories/NW_042906idahopowerEL.82d38eea.html [...] It happened after the company's hard drives were sold on eBay - with confidential still intact company memos and the names and personal information of hundreds of Idaho Power employees. KTVB conducted the investigation in conjunction with its NBC affiliate in Cincinnati, where the hard drives were actually bought. KTVB then told Idaho Power about the issue. They then issued a press release to the media late Friday afternoon. As a result of the investigation, Idaho Power will no longer recycle or sell computer hard drives. In all, four hard drives were bought by a computer security expert in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was able to retrieve hundreds of thousands of confidential company documents from Idaho Power. The drives contain everything from employee names and social security numbers - even confidential memos to the company.s CEO. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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