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Catastrophic Dataloss Incurred by Journalspace

Posted on January 9.2009

Journalspace.com has fallen and can’t get up. Thousands of users lost their journals because there was no backup.

http://www.myuniquearticle.com/blogging/970-catastrophic-dataloss-incurred-by-journalspace.php

Cyber-sabotage

Posted on June 26.2008

A Florida woman faces charges after police say she sabotaged the business from which she thought she was being fired. You can never know what is going on in your employee's mind. The article proves the importance of offsite/online backup. Watch the clip and see what you think.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/01/24/pkg.disgruntled.employee.wtlv

Harvard Law School loses backup tape

Posted on Dec 10.2008

Harvard Law School alerted thousands of clients from a legal services clinic that a backup tape containing their social security numbers, addresses and financial information was lost last month. A technician lost the tape on an MBTA subway while traveling from Harvard's services center in Jamaica Plain, Mass., to the law school. The personal information went back 10 years, and belonged to approximately 21,000 people who visited the school's legal services center.

http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/11/06/harvard-law-school-offers-clarifications-on-lost-backup-tape/

T-Mobile Lost 17 Million Subscribers' Personal Data

The wireless carrier said the stolen data includes the names, cell phone numbers, addresses, and birth dates of German subscribers.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210700232

Secret Defense Data Lost on UK Government USBs

The U.K.’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted that 121 USB sticks, including five containing secret information, have been lost or stolen since 2004, in the British government’s latest embarrassing data breach.

http://www.darkreading.com/security/storage/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211201158

 

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