More data lost

Posted by Mark on Oct 10, 2008

This time we hear that a contractor has lost a portable hard drive containing 1.5 million records of military personnel, and that it was not encrypted.

Presumably, with the economic crisis being a “good time to bury bad news”, not a lot will happen. Will we ever get the answer to the one rather simple question about what happened?

What on earth was anyone doing copying 1.5 million service records on to a portable hard disk?
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