Re: Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp. Reports Data Loss for 1.3M Borrowers

[Chris Walsh <cwalsh () cwalsh org>]

I gets better:

"How did this happen?
Extensive investigation of this incident over the course of the Memorial Day weekend revealed that in January 2006 TG 
had prepared a series of files containing name and Social Security number information for use by Hummingbird, a company 
TG engaged to prepare a document management system. TG prepared the files for transmission by encrypting the files, 
protecting them with a password, and sending them to a secure site via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for retrieval by 
Hummingbird. Hummingbird indicated that one of its employees then downloaded the files, decrypted them, and stored them 
on the piece of equipment that was subsequently lost. Hummingbird also reported that the piece of equipment was 
password protected.
"

> From http://www.tgslc.org/resources/customerdata.cfm#prevent

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