LEAKING DATA

Brian Bailey, of Arlington, Va.'s Digital Security Int'l, drops us a note about a recent trend that he says is emerging in the wake of several high-profile cases of companies losing back-up tapes. "You may have read about companies such as Bank of America and Ameritrade losing backup tapes containing millions of personal customer accounts and information."

Iron Mountain, he notes, has lost tapes and now recommends that its customers encrypt backup tapes before sending them off-site. This, he says, will affect law firms as well.

Here is Bailey's suggested reading list:

Re: Iron Mountain. (Enterprise VoIPPlanet)
Re: BofA (CNNMoney)
Re: Ameritrade (CNNMoney)

Here are some related links:

Iron Mountain press release.
BofA press release.
I could not find a press room on the Ameritrade site.