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By Chris Mellor
Techworld
02 May 2006
Accident-prone Iron Mountain has mislaid more backup tapes
containing
personal information.
On April 6th, a driver reported that backup tapes belonging
to the
Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and another customer had gone
missing.
The LIRR tapes contained personal information about 17,000
past and
current employees - virtually everyone who has every worked
for the
concern. The second customer's tapes did not contain
personal
information.
So far no evidence of theft has been found; the tapes have
apparently
just been mislaid.
The LIRR is providing a paid-for one year account with a
credit check
and identity theft monitoring service - a costly exercise
for 17,000
people.
Iron Mountain has previously lost backup tapes belonging to
Times
Warner in March, 2005. These covered 600,000 current and
past
employees.
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