Opinion: Should you back up your sensitive data in the cloud?

If you do decide to use iCloud or OneDrive or DropBox or Google Drive, you should make your documents as secure as possible. — Photo by Denny Müller on Unsplash

This week a reader wrote: “I have a question about iCloud and OneDrive security."

I currently backup my computer to several USB drives. However, I was thinking about storing my backup information on iCloud or OneDrive. Some of the data I backup may contain personal data such as medical records, bank account and credit card information, investment information, home records, tax information, documents containing my Social Security number, or passwords. I do keep my passwords in a password manager, but there may be some documents I back up that still contain a password. I want to be sure this type of data is secure on iCloud or OneDrive before I start storing it there. What are your thoughts.”