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Idaho utility hard drives and data turn up on eBay
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:59:17 -0400 (EDT)
(makes me wonder what type of customer and employee data may have been found.. - lyger) http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,111148,00.html News Story by Sharon Fisher MAY 04, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Anybody with five bucks and a little patience may be able to score sensitive corporate or customer data on eBay. If your organization has engaged in the common practice of disk drive recycling -- selling unneeded disk drives directly or through a service -- company data might wind up for sale on eBay Inc.'s auction site, even if the drives have been wiped first. Idaho Power Co. discovered that possibility last week as it scrambled to track down company disk drives that had been sold on eBay without having been scrubbed first. The Boise, Idaho-based utility serves approximately 460,000 customers in the southern part of Idaho and in eastern Oregon. Data on the drives, which had been used in servers, contained proprietary company information such as memos, correspondence with some customers and confidential employee information, the company said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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