Contractor Loses IBM Employee Data

A contractor for corporate giant IBM has lost a data tape containing personal information on an unverified number of current and former IBM employees. 

The unmentioned vendor lost the tapes in transit to IBM's headquarters in Armonk, New York. IBM officials mentions that there was no evidence the data had been misused, but the company would provide a free year of credit monitoring to all affected individuals.

IBM has just introduced a new suite of security and compliance products designed to track potential problems and generate compliance with regulatory measures, but that announcement was ignored with the news of the recent data breach.