Tapes included information on some 600,000 people, including current and former employees, beneficiaries, and people who had provided services for the company. Tapes were being transported by records management company Iron Mountain. Iron Mountain makes about 5 million similar transactions with customers around the world each year. Company advises companies to begin encrypting data on backup tapes. Some 85,000 employees affected. Time Warner: “We take the security of our employees personal information extremely seriously” Iron Mountain has lost four containers in 2005, none of which has been recovered.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2118165/time-warner-says-data-on-employees-is-lost.html