Begin forwarded message:
From: Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 12, 2006 2:53:32 PM EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IP] Bank loses tape with personal information on 90,000
customers
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:31 -0500, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Dan Shoop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This actually happens all the time. The bank FedEx's or otherwise
sends a tape, it get's lost ... In most all cases the data is
encrypted.
What is infuriating to people is that it's not ALWAYS encrypted. If
this stuff can make it onto backup tapes in the clear it it implies that
these systems are shockingly insecure. They don't Fedex cash around in
cardboard boxes, why on Earth is it legal for a bank to store someone's
name and credit card in plan text on a backup tape or hard drive?
Lee
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