Lowe’s is notifying 35,000 employees that their personal information might have been compromised. The personal information of current and former drivers for the company may have been exposed between July 2013 and April 2014. The data was housed in E-DriverFile, an online database provided by SafetyFirst, a driver safety firm headquartered in New Jersey. The root cause of the incident was an improperly secured backup: “We recently learned that the vendor unintentionally backed up this data to an unsecured computer server that was accessible from the Internet” There hasn’t been hard evidence that the improperly stored data was misused.”]