Monthly Archives: November 2013

Man Tosses Out Hard Drive Worth $8M

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Protect your files with Carbonite Online BackupI can’t think of a better reason to backup your documents than this story.  Imagine suddenly realizing the hard drive your threw out a few months ago contained the private key for Bitcoin that were purchased several years ago and had since risen in value to nearly eight million USD.  Read the sad story.

Back in 2009 the crypto currency purchase was worth a significant $6,000, but today the currency is valued at more than 1,000 times as much.  He had placed the hard drive in a drawer once he thought all of the files had been swapped out to a newer drive that was replacing that one due to an issue.  A news story about a site related to BTC caused him to remember that the digital currency was still on that drive.

A visit to the garbage dump did nothing but further discourage him.  After talking to the dump manager he realized the monumental task of digging through several feet of trash that had accumulated in that time period.  After a fleeting thought of mounting a rescue mission and how monumental that would be he gave up hope.

Can you say the word backup?

 

Email and Password Data Stolen from Adobe

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Adobe has reported that passwords, unencrypted emails and password reminder questions and answers were stolen from Adobe leaving customers wondering if other accounts will be compromised.   As we have stated time and time again people reuse passwords on most sites, so the stolen emails and questions are all that are needed to gain access to most web sites.

In many instances people write a hint to themselves that says “same as my Facebook password” or “same as my bank password.”

“The best advice is for people not to recycle the same password in multiple places,” Mr. Krebs said.

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