IBM, an inventor of magnetic tape storage over 50 years ago and a leading supplier of data encryption, was recently reported to have lost an unrevealed number of backup tapes that were contained with personal info of employees.
Company spokesperson Fred McNeese was quoted by SCMagazine.com that the tapes were unintentionally lost Feb. 23 whilst they were being transported by an intermediary purveyor from an IBM location in Westchester County, N.Y. to an everlasting storage capability.
Fred McNeese also mentioned that a few of the tapes, hinging on what info was being carried by them, were encrypted, whereas others were not. IBM would not make public to what number of tapes were lost or to what number of employees – lots of them retirees – were impinged on, however McNeese stated that the tapes are not easy to be accessed on a computer and none of the data has been misrepresented.
McNeese was quoted as saying,.
It’s a plural number (of affected people). We don’t know if anybody’s got them (the tapes), but if someone’s got them, we don’t want to give them additional information.
