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.
>

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