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CA: San Quentin loses data on 3,500 visitors
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:13:40 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/29/BA4KVSJ9O.DTL A flash memory drive containing names, birth dates and driver's license numbers of more than 3,500 people who either volunteered or visited San Quentin State Prison in a group tour has been lost, a prison official said Friday. The flash drive was used to move the data each evening from the prison's administrative office near the parking lot to computers at the two entrance gates to the facility to allow guards to identify volunteers or groups, such as college students, that tour the prison, said Samuel Robinson, a San Quentin spokesman. "What happens is that we have to transport that information out to individual areas where we let people through" onto prison grounds, he said. "It's our security measure to walk the flash drive." [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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