Clark, I found this quote at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdbln/is_200303/ai_ziff38166/pg_2.
"ISM spokeswoman Anne Mowat confirmed that the hard drive was taken from a standard PC workstation and was a backup to information stored elsewhere." Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark Morris > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 3:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Theft of spindles was Re: PCI Compliance - > Encryption of all non-console administrative access. > > On 1 Aug 2007 23:33:41 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > > The drives were stolen in February of 2003 from ISM, an IBM subsidiary > and the implication was that at least some of them were mainframe > related. This story > http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2003/02/03/ism_030203.html from the > Canadian Broadcasting Corporation didn't have those implications but > other stories at the time did. For example, while the subsequent > links don't work this gives more of the flavor > http://www.priva-c.com/privacyhorizon/lessonslearned_ism.asp > . I suspect that this was a swapped out drive. Given that more than > one company was involved, it looks like it was a drive in some kind of > RAID configuration that had parts of logical drives on the physical > drive. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

