TN BlueCross Encrypts All Data After 57 Disks Stolen 140
Lucas123 writes "After dozens of hard disk drives were stolen from a leased facility in Chattanooga, potentially exposing the personal data of more than 1 million customers, BlueCross decided to go the safe route: they spent $6 million to encrypt all stored data across their enterprise. The health insurer spent the past year encrypting nearly a petabyte of data on 1,000 Windows, AIX, SQL, VMware and Xen server hard drives; 6,000 workstations and removable media drives; as well as 136,000 tape backup volumes."
Re:"Safe route" (Score:4, Informative)
I don't think the barn door saying means what you think it does. It suggests pointless action taken after the event. The original data was stolen but encryption to hinder future theft of data seems sensible.