IBM loses retirees' personal information; tapes fell off a truck
IBM Corp., one of the world's leading providers of encryption and other data-management technologies, is in the uncomfortable position of trying to solve its own mystery involving missing computer tapes with sensitive information about employees and records of customer transactions.
An outside vendor was transporting the tapes from one IBM facility to another on Feb. 23 when the tapes fell out of a contractor's vehicle in Westchester County, N.Y., not far from IBM headquarters in Armonk.
IBM representatives went to the scene and couldn't find the tapes, spokesman Fred McNeese said Tuesday.
