State of Virginia Falls Prey to Hackers with no Data Backup
Written on May 8, 2009 – 8:20 am | by admin
I thought that corporate America learned from the tragedy of 9/11 about the importance of data backups. I was shocked to read that the State of Virginia’s website was recently hacked, not because I didn’t think a state website was able to be hacked, but I was more in shock over the fact that cannot seem to find their data backup and the hackers are holding millions of patient records hostage.
You can read the full story here, but the moral of the story is to take a simple step right now and discuss your data backup strategy. At a minimum, if you have physical backups they should not be located on site. Ideally, you should employ a remote backup strategy so that if your building were to literally blowup, your data would be safe.
If you don’t have a solid online backup strategy in place, make plans to get one sooner rather than later. If you need assistance, you can contact us or visit our corporate backup partner, First Data.
Tags: data security, online backup
12 Responses to “State of Virginia Falls Prey to Hackers with no Data Backup”
By Matt Keegan on May 8, 2009 | Reply
This is ridiculous! Someone who works for the state should be fired.
They should have a program like Carbonite installed to ensure that this never happens again. I would hate to be someone whose patient records were stolen — can you imagine the information that could be shared with anyone?
By admin on May 8, 2009 | Reply
Agreed. Carbonite is a simple solution, but it would at least be a step in the right direction. I prefer First Backup for corporate enterprise backup needs.
Thanks for stopping by!
By Gab Goldenberg from SEO ROI Services on May 8, 2009 | Reply
That’s scary stuff. Just made me think that I should look into backup solutions for my own site, and learn how Wordpress backup plugins and stuff work…
By admin on May 9, 2009 | Reply
Gab, as Matt mentioned, Carbonite is a great choice for an affordable backup solution. You can click on the banner to the right and get a 15 day trial, then it is onlt $54.95 for the year.
Here is a great WP Backup plugin -
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup/
Best, Anthony
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