Over 20,000 clients of the Wilmer-Hale Legal Services Center have had their personal data-ranging from addresses and social security numbers to sensitive legal intake information-potentially exposed, the Record learned late last night from Robb London, Associate Director of Communications.
Yesterday, HLS gave notice to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, in accordance with a Massachusetts privacy statute that requires disclosure whenever stored data is in any way potentially compromised.
Additionally, the school has sent letters, in both English and Spanish, notifying the 8000 individuals whose SS numbers were lost, giving them a point of contact at LSC, and offering that the law school (at its expense) will be making services available to them for identity and account protection. An additional letter went out to the 13,000 other clients affected.
The tape was lost on or around September 23. LSC has its servers on site in Jamaica Plain, unlike other Harvard clinicals such as Defenders, Prison Legal Assistance Project, or the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, whose servers are located on campus and are encrypted. Each week, IT sends an employee to LSC to take out the data tapes and to transport them to campus for back up. When IT went to back up the tapes two days after they were delivered from LSC, they noticed that only 5 of the 6 tapes were there.
Once it was determined that the tape was lost, IT took steps to discover what was on the missing tape. They found that the tape was part of the case management system of LSC, including 10 years worth of client intake data.
It appears that the missing tape was lost in transit. According to HLS, the database on the backup tape was password protected and to be able to get into it requires considerable training and specialized equipment. London described the password protection as, "almost the same level as encryption," and stated that it would take "Herculean efforts and immense computing power," to breach the security of the tape. London reiterated that there is no evidence that anyone's identify has been disclosed or that the tape has been found.
Nevertheless, in response to this loss, HLS has changed its procedures regarding data protection at LSC. First, the servers at Jamaica Plain site are now being encrypted. Second, data transport is now in the hands of a courier service known as Iron Mountain rather than IT. Third, a new tape library for LSC has been purchased, which includes a bar code reader for improved inventory control.
London refused to comment on any disciplinary action taken against IT employees.
My wife's father is hessaby as in www.hessaby.com (they stole his cash and put it there) and my mother-in-law family is related by marriage tot the Pakravans., who headed the SAVAKPan Am was nicknamed PanIran as the Shah's family was the largest shareholder. I have extreme amount of details of exactly was going on
from the Iranians wanting him to return their assets to other coup attempts to 6 months before the Shah son pretended he was bankrupt in a public trial, to my wifes relative coming to our house talking about the coup and we did not know they were in Washington DC, to the Iran Contra hearings trial that was going to start Feb 20 th, 1989 to the tipping of the coup to the Iranian govt, ,to something in writing I can prove the coup to the Salamon Rushtie Feb 14th insult to islam to get the people on the street to avoid the coup to the Iranian govt announcement of a coup by 'dissent mullahs' announced at the time to the negiotations between the Bush people involved pretending they were going to make a deal to the 'nice' stories plant in US newspapers at the time (including the Post) as part of the negotation to the fact the bomb had to placed out of London based on the flight path as I worked at USAir at the time creating the flight plans for the 'planes to fly themselves' to overt CIA agents around me at the time to the fact that Bollier, the guy who made the timer for the bomb's wide was IRANIAN and the Libyans told me and said they were not allowed to say... there were 3 witness only.. the main one was trashed.. Bollier and a guy whom said he soldm the Libyan a suitcase in Malta.. hence, one the suitcase guy would be left.. the Libyans did not put up a defence in exchange for evidence to trash the main witness on the stand to what an overt CIA agent told me in the US 4 years later.. etc. etc and the details of several coups to the new World bank (my wie's cousin involved who used to work at the work bank)and US loans starting May 1990 to Iran to the fact that PANAm was shut down 18 months later as they thought it would be targeted again because of the Shah connection (the US airlines go in and out of bankruptcy all the time - this was the one of the first US airlines - an ICON) etc
I also know where the Iranian govt officials have money in the US, Canada and UK; the back door dealing etccall me for details.. Barry Lanza 00 44 1786831554.. My father-in-law was a convicted spy given amnesty