Probe Targets Archives’ Handling of Data on 70 Million Vets

Everyone knows that sensitive data needs more attention and car, but sometimes people forget about this. So happened in October, 2009 when RAID massive with about 70 millions records of sensitive information was given to vendor to be fixed. The owner of data told that  this is not a problem because  the contractors signed privacy promises in their contracts.
 I believe that even the privacy promises were signed, the data had to be encrypted according to accepted standards. As another variant, the data could be degaussed using degausser Mag EraSURE™ .
Anyway this case shows that special care should be taken when you work with important and sensitive information.

Link to the original article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/probe-targets-archives-handling-of-data-on-70-million-vets/
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