Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives

CWmike writes "An external hard drive that's believed to contain nearly 1TB of data from the Clinton Administration is missing from the US National Archives and Recording Administration (NARA). The drive includes more than 100,000 Social Security numbers and home addresses of people who visited or worked at the White House. Among those whose information is on the list is one of then-Vice President Al Gore's three daughters. The drive also contained details on the security procedures used by the Secret Service at the White House, as well as event logs, social gathering logs, political records and other information from the Clinton administration. Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-Calif.) said the Archives was in the process of converting information from the drive to a digital records system when it apparently disappeared. The hard drive was apparently removed from a secure storage area to a workplace where at least 100 'badge-holders' had access to it, Issa noted."

Comments

Data missing again

[Jurily]

Any finance-sensitive and/or war crime reports on that disk I wonder...

Re:A 1 TB drive 9+ years ago?

[MichaelSmith]

I call shenanigans (or bad reporting) on this story. There were no 1TB hard drives 9 years ago (except maybe in HD manufacturers labs). You might have had an external array, but not a drive. I don't remember for sure, but I'd say a single hard drive was max ~250GB in 2000?

Maybe the original data was archived on a modern device. If you are relying on hard disks it would make sense to move the asset (the data) on to media which you can maintain.

Re:What does this have to do with the Clinton Admi

[Nimey]

I've noticed a lot more conservative-leaning folks (and moderators) coming out of the woodwork in the last couple months.

I suspect it's not that people here have partisan motives so much as it's "cool" to be against whomever is in power. I kind of remember the Old Days of Slashdot in the last Clinton years being this way too.

Identity Theft

[theArtificial]

Maybe identity theft will become more of a concern when it happens to a somebody.

File Sharing

[Swimsc]

I bet it turns up, through file sharing, on a PC in Iran.

Re:But...

[PopeRatzo]

I still don't understand, though, why the National Archive would think that 100,000 personal records including social security numbers are something that they should be keeping around. Since we've already established that there were no 1TB hard drives in 2000, this archive must have been created sometime later. Maybe someone should have thought about it a little bit.