Sensitive data missing from National Archives

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WASHINGTON—The National Archives lost a computer hard drive containing
massive amounts of sensitive data from the Clinton administration,
including Social Security numbers, addresses, and Secret Service and
White House operating procedures, congressional officials said
Tuesday.

One of former Vice President Al Gore's three daughters is among those
whose Social Security numbers were on the drive, but it was not clear
which of them was victimized. Other information includes logs of
events, social gatherings and political records.

The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation of the matter,
according to Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Towns and the committee's
senior Republican, Rep. Darrell Issa of California, said they would
continue to seek more information about the breach.

The lawmakers said they learned of the loss from the inspector general
of the National Archives and Records Administration. The drive is
missing from the Archives facility in College Park, Md., a Washington
suburb. The drive was lost between October 2008 and March 2009 and
contained 1 terabyte of data—enough material to fill millions of
books.

A Republican committee aide who was at a briefing held by the
inspector general said the Archives had been converting the Clinton
administration information to a digital records system when the hard
drive went missing.

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