Yikes!

This is a bit concerning. Having worked at a small company, I can believe that backup tapes could get "lost". However, a bigger company would seem to have a more secure process in place. Very strange. It would be interesting to know the details on this one.

Techdirt:Happy Holidays: We've Lost All Your Critical Data

It's been one of the big themes this year, so perhaps it's not surprising at all to find out that the year is closing out with yet another big data breach. In this case, it's Marriott, who conveniently lost unencrypted backup tapes of an "identity theft's special" set of info on over 200,000 employees, time share owners and customers. Included in the data were every identity thief's dream starter kit: names, social security numbers, bank account numbers and credit card numbers. To apologize, Marriott has agreed to spend the $100 or whatever to give everyone impacted a free credit monitoring service -- which seems like the very least they could do.