Yet another huge loss of names and Social Security numbers:
The information was prepared by the loan company in January for use by Hummingbird. The data was encrypted and password-protected, but subsequently decrypted and stored on the now-lost hardware by the Hummingbird employee, Texas Guaranteed Student Loan said.
And this, boys and girls, is perhaps the truest meaning of "information wants to be free." Not Free as in beer, not Free as in speech, but free as in free-flowing water streaming through even the smallest of holes in a dike.
Posted by bug to Security at June 2, 2006 4:45 PM | TrackBackWhat's really disturbing to me about this (because I think that I've developed an immunity to the ID Theft panic, as sad as that is) is that Hummingbird is a popular document management system for law firms (although not mine). The potential for malpractice claims and other disasters could be huge, if this isn't an isolated Hummingbird incident.
Posted by: jenn at June 3, 2006 6:20 AM