> academic work I actually know a few people working on their PhD’s that have nothing backed up. Their advisors buys servers, the university’s IT sets them up

> academic work I actually know a few people working on their PhD’s that have nothing backed up. Their advisors buys servers, the university’s IT sets them up, they get access to it and work on it without backups, local copies or anything. They have grants that they may have to provide results for. As time passes, there are more people working in that lab that get access to the machines. Multiple projects being worked on for multiple grants. I also know people running unsecured stuff on public ports for easier access. Another thing, it could be that the data sets they where working on where given to them under a condition that they wouldn’t be shared, exposed or something. I don’t know anyone in medicine or healthcare and no one at this university, but that’s what I’ve seen from people I’ve met throughout the year. (I have also seems people loose their thesis because their laptops died on them and they didn’t have a backup or for their Word file getting corrupted.)