Why are we just now learning about National Archives security breach that happened in April?

What the hell?

WASHINGTON β€” Federal authorities are investigating the loss of a computer hard drive containing a huge quantity of personal information from Bill Clinton’s presidency in an apparent security breach at a National Archives record center, government officials said Tuesday.

Government officials briefed on the matter said the breach, which was confirmed in April, involved the loss of a drive containing a terabyte of computerized data, which could include millions of individual pieces of information, including personal information about one of then Vice President Al Gore’s three daughters.

The missing information included Social Security numbers and home addresses of numerous people who visited or worked at the White House, along with other material related to security procedures used by the Secret Service at the White House in the Clinton years.

The National Archives and Records Administration said Tuesday in a statement that the agency β€œtakes very seriously the loss of an external hard drive that contained copies of electronic storage tapes from the executive office of the president of the Clinton administration.”

The archives statement said the hard drive contained β€œan as-yet-unknown amount of personally identifiable information of White House staff and visitors.”

The agency said that among those it notified of the breach were the White House, representatives of Mr. Clinton, the Homeland Security Department and people whose identifying information might have been on the hard drive.

Other officials said it was not known whether the hard drive had been stolen or accidentally misplaced. They added that it did not appear that classified information related to national security was taken but that analysts had not yet completed their review of the vast quantity of information stored on the drive.

Malkin asks the question of the day: Has anyone seen Sandy Berg(l)er lately?

For that matter, has our Secretary of State been questioned? It’s not like stealing files in the dead of night is something that is beneath the Clintons.

Via Memeorandum.

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