Many staffers in the IT department of the much-hacked US city of Baltimore have been storing files on their computers’ hard drives – as in, they haven’t kept properly backed-up data, stored in the cloud or off-site, an audit has found. The Baltimore Sun reports that Baltimore City Auditor Josh Pasch, who presented his findings last month to a City Council committee, told the committee that because of (outdated and strongly inadvisable) data backup habits, the city hasn’t been able to provide documentation regarding the IT department’s performance goals, which include modernizing mainframe apps.

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