Hard drive with personal info on 3.4 million B.C., Yukon students lost

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A team of 50 bureaucrats spent much of the summer rummaging through boxes in a secret Victoria warehouse, searching for a hard drive containing records of 3.4 million British Columbia and Yukon students and teachers, some dating back almost 30 years.

Extensive physical and electronic searches came up empty, and on Tuesday the B.C. government officially declared the unencrypted hard drive lost.

Technology, Innovation and Citizens' Services Minister Amrik Virk said the province's chief information officer will review the government's management of personal information.

He said information and privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham will conduct her own review.

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Hard drive with personal info on 3.4 million B.C., Yukon students lost | Canada

 

[DaSleeper]

Déja Vu

 

[MHz]

They can recover the data off the remains of a platter that went through 9/11 (encrypted) yet this hd is fried beyond any recovery methods. We should be so lucky the banks lose the personal loans of that many people.

 

[AnnaG]

If they can't find it, how would they know if it's fried or not?