On 3 Aug 2007 12:28:14 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Everyone > > > >I believe the incident described below occurred at the Regina, SK office >of ISM, an IBM subsidiary. The incident in this case involved an IDE >drive from a server or other Wintel platform. As I understand the >details of this incident, the disk contained, or may have contained, a >significant amount of personal data belonging to a number of government >departments and other private enterprises, such as insurance companies. >The disk was removed from service for whatever reason and went missing >before it could be wiped of data. The incident received significant >coverage in the press. > It was a PC style disk but given that it had data from a number of companies and that it had been removed from some kind of hardware in an upgrade, the possibility of it having been attached to a mainframe increases. ISM is an outsourcer of mainframe services. I might add that given what was said, if it was from a raid configuration, that data might have been effectively encrypted. Try reading your average application file or data base area without a record description. If the file pointers (VTOCs) weren't on that disk and it may have had parts of several logical disks even the NSA might have problems trying to get information from it. > > >The following site has a description of the ISM incident. > > > >http://www.e-commercealert.com/article566.html > > > >A couple of years ago, disk drives were stolen from an IBM outsourcing > >centre here in Canada. I believe they were from a box attached to a > >mainframe. With the advent of the actual disk drives for a mainframe > >being the same size as those for a PC, it becomes a lot easier. There > >was speculation that the drive(s?) was/were taken for use in a PC. > > > > > > > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 >
---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
