The second half of the year has been calmer than the first half’s database breaches at RSA, Sony, and Epsilon. Healthcare organizations made up a disproportionate number of exposed records, especially at healthcare organizations. Backup tapes are often the Achilles’ heel in enterprise database security. Encryption of data is key to ensuring security even when tapes can’t be physically secured, experts say. In September, Tricare/SAIC employee for one of its contractors was driving around with a backup tape containing patient data from 1992 to 2011 for San Antonio-area military treatment facilities.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/5-big-database-breaches-of-late-2011