National Archives was robbed of Clinton administration data

As it became known on Tuesday, the National Archives lost a computer hard drive that's containing an important information data of Clinton administration, including Social Security numbers, addresses, and Secret Service and White House operating procedures, and many other logs of events, social gatherings and political records. The drive was lost between October 2008 and March 2009 and contained 1 terabyte of data. Thus, for instance, former Vice President Al Gore's three daughters SSNs were among the contents. 

A criminal investigation of the matter is now being conducted by the FBI, as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Edolphus Towns and senior committee Republican Darrell Issa stated.

Adrienne Thomas, was called by the inspector to appear before a committee panel on Thursday to "explain how such an outrageous breach of security happened." As Issa reported, the hard drive was moved from a "secure" storage area to a workspace while it was in use, and, so at least 100 badge-holders could easily access to the area where the hard drive was left unsecured. Moreover, even janitors, visitors, interns and others could pass through the area the hard drive were kept.