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A major University not keeping backups of information worth $1M+ is grossly negligent. It's not like this is a private individual with a desktop (who of course
by tempestn 6y ago
A major University not keeping backups of information worth $1M+ is grossly negligent. It's not like this is a private individual with a desktop (who of course should also have backups, but could be forgiven for not knowing that). I'm sure UCSF has a whole IT department; how could they allow this information to not be backed up to cold or offsite storage?
- Schiphol 6y agoNot to defend anyone, but knowing universities as I do, the data in question were perhaps in the hands of a bunch of postdocs, and not subject to any centralized protocols.
- tempestn 6y agoIt said it was servers that were compromised though, right? So you'd think there should be backups of the servers' data drives. I could understand if it were just people's desktops that they're not supposed to be storing sensitive stuff on anyway.