Ameritrade warns 200,000 clients of lost data

Tue Apr 19 19:44:28 UTC 2005

 	"A total of four backup tapes were found to be missing from a box 
that was damaged during shipping between two facilities, the company said. 
Three of the four tapes have been recovered at the shipper's facility.

So, who else thinks that this is some sort of criminal negligence, puting 
that kind of sensitive information in such a risky position?

I think that these conpanies (lexis nexis, ameritrade, whoever) should be 
held *criminally* liable for things like this.

How long until something like the social security administration has an 
announcement like this? Or, Experian? Transunion? D&B?

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

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> Gee, what a surprise -- another one:
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> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7561268/
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> Anyone wanna bet that tomorrow, this number will have
> grown "after further examination"...?
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> - ferg
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