Unknown steal Clinton hard.

Disks and laptops are also popular authorities on the goods carried. Sometimes go to sensitive data is lost: The U.S. National Archives now has a hard disk with archive data on the Clinton administration lost. The FBI identified.

 

It sounds more dramatic if the U.S. Federal FBI investigative records to protect against data theft pursue. Sometimes the right, as always disappear USB sticks or CD-ROMs containing sensitive data from all sorts of authorities around the globe. Sloppiness is not always sufficient as an explanation, often it is actually going to espionage.

More often, however, it is truth to flea markets or Ebay.

Because high and handy laptop hard drives are also ideal for taking articles officials and employees with sticky fingers, after addition to merit looking for. So in cases like the British MI5 agent who has his laptop with secret information on a station lying forgets Bank, the Ministry of Defense officials, the secret defense data, including a laptop on a park bench can be subject, not necessarily to explain. But already the burglary in January 2008, in which a British army officer, the data of 600,000 recruits out of the car steal him, was probably Flohmarkt Crime: The car stood on a secured area of the Defense Ministry.

And so many spies, such as laptops from government departments and agencies to disappear, it can not give: that a minister of the Labor Government in June 2008 the laptop from the office to steal him, was especially embarrassing because it was public. Because, unfortunately, is also routine: even the German ministries and authorities came alone from 2005 to 2008 more than 500 laptops and other equipment mysteriously vanished. So many of them probably soon after his disappearance as a second-hand bargains one or the other happy people have made - unsuspecting that he purchased the laptop has almost paid twice: once with tax money, once a bank transfer.

What is the goal: The data - or the institution?

Now vanished from the National Archives of the United States a large amount of confidential data from the reign of former President Bill Clinton. It is, inter alia, to social security numbers, addresses, and internal rules of the secret and the White House, said spokeswoman Susan Cooper Archive on Tuesday in Washington. Also records of events were included. The data were on a computer hard drive, which had disappeared without trace.

As always, the question is now in space, what is the thief really has had on the data or only on the disk? Because, as usual, it could be a data scandal - or how often a case of "Weggefunden": What lying around, is just happy times with them. The media, whose theft was noticed now, so Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper, was sometime October-March from an archive building in the Washington suburb of College Park disappeared and imposed a terabyte of data.

Terabyte disks are there so many still do not, they achieve good prices. But would also be valuable to the stored content. Cooper: "The disk contains a previously unknown amount of personal data of employees and visitors to the White House."

Embarrassing for the archivists, but potentially dangerous for the individuals whose data is stored on the disk were.

As a rule, remains in such cases only mitigation, the thieves are rarely caught. So did the theft of an external hard drive from the U.S. nuclear safety authority in June 2006, in which data from more than 1,500 secret sources were lost, and in Britain of the potentially life-threatening theft of a disk containing the names and addresses of 5000 judicial officers in September 2008 so far unclear.

Even in the current case will now begin the affected people over the loss of data information. Among them was also one of the three daughters of former Vice President Al Gore, the National Archives spokeswoman Cooper, whose social security number on the hard drive was. Even Clinton was informed, but it was not initially known whether personal data of the ex-president were affected.

The FBI launched federal investigations.