SAIC Loses Data of 4.9 Million Patients 182
An anonymous reader writes "Government contractor SAIC just can't seem to get a break. Still fresh off of the Citytime scandal, they've now had a data breach in which backup tapes holding 4.9 million personal health records were stolen from an employee's car. To add insult to injury, evidently the tapes were not encrypted either: 'Tricare did not indicate whether SAIC encrypted the information on the stolen tapes, but Raley said, "It's very hard to encrypt a backup tape."'"
LOL (Score:5, Informative)
My professional opinion (Score:5, Informative)
It's very hard to encrypt a backup tape.
I think I speak for everyone when I say: Fuck you, no it's not. I don't have any problems encrypting my personal backups even though I have nothing more private to protect than porn. You people are supposed to be professionals. Telling people their data is safe because it would require "special hardware and software" to read the tapes is pathetic. Get your shit together, sir.
Re:!surprised (Score:4, Informative)
SAIC's greatest FAILs:
Wow. The hits just keep coming...
Re:Very hard to encrypt a backup tape? (Score:4, Informative)
When was the last time we read a story, "Iron Mountain lost backup tapes uber confidential data."??
Every time that happens they kill all the witnesses. So no one ever knows...