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Missing Hard Drive Spurs Data-Theft Fears In Canada

Posted by timothy on from the get-your-new-ehdentity dept.

DevNull writes "A government of Saskatchewan (Canada) hard drive has gone missing, and it contains significant personal data - in fact, the government won't even detail what all is contained in it. Read about it from the CBC. So much for people who think the internet is the cause of all their security fears! Identity theft is the major concern at the moment." B5_geek links to this report on Bloomberg.com which says that "'[t]he information includes names, addresses, beneficiaries, social insurance numbers, pension values, pre-authorized checking information and mothers' maiden names," according to Co-operators Chief Executive Kathy Bardswick

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  1. Re:Ugh by Smokey · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Security, security, security, people

    And let's not forget PHYSICAL security, somebody had to go in, remove the hard drive from the computer (I assume it was in active use..) and walk out with it.

  2. This company is an IBM subsidiary by dl248 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a case where the work has been farmed out to ISM, which is a subsidiary of IBM. It's not the government's fault, but ISM/IBM who are to blame here.

    The amount and detail of data makes this a SCARY situation.