Last year I got an apologetic letter from Uncle Sam. The hackers had gotten into the government personnel records and taken them. I didn't get too upset, all they could have gotten was my old Air Force service records from 50 years ago, and records of the security clearance I held up until about 10 years ago.
Today a got an apologetic letter from by stock broker, Morgan Stanley, about a hack at their place. The story as Morgan Stanley told it in the letter, they retired an aging data center. The hired a contractor (did not give contractor's name) to erase the disks in the data center servers. Something went wrong, they were not too clear on what, and the data, names and social security and more, stayed on the hard drives and turned up somewhere, later. Morgan Stanley has offered to pay for two years of an identity theft monitoring program. I suppose I ought to take them up on that.
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