On 5 Aug 2007 03:34:04 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:

>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."

Given the data described and the number of different companies, I
wonder what was going on at ISM.  It SEEMED like data that would not
be in the same application and that would not be run for multiple
companies.
>
>
>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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