Iron Mountain Strikes Again: Page 2 of 3

There's also no evidence -- we repeat, no evidence -- that anything real bad, like identify theft or scavenged accounts, has come of this. Not yet, anyway. Besides, the affected banks have engaged credit risk advisors. Sounds like they've got it sussed.

It's also important to put responsibility where it lies, namely, on the shoulders of customers who should know better. Encrypt your tapes! If you're dumb enough to send unprotected data in any form out of the office, you basically deserve what you get.

What's that? All the lost tapes were "in a format difficult to decode?" Hmm. Well, there's no accounting for personal error.

And another thing: Don't pick on Iron Mountain. Security breaches of all kinds are industry-wide. If the company already had over five nines' reliability, why should it waste any time looking for causes that don't exist?

Bottom line: Like we said, if you're dumb enough to send your data off in a can with somebody's semi-employed driver, you shouldn't be surprised when things don't turn out the way you'd planned.