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(update) UK: Personnel may sue MoD over stolen laptop data
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:31:29 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.2028852.0.Personnel_may_sue_MoD_over_stolen_laptop_data.php A number of serving or former military personnel whose personal and financial details were on a laptop stolen in Birmingham last month are considering suing the Ministry of Defence under the Data Protection Act. More than 600,000 names of those who had either joined the RAF, Royal Navy or Royal Marines or expressed an interest in doing so since 1997 were on the unencrypted hard-drive taken from a parked car on January 9. The information also included thousands of home addresses, individuals' bank details, passport and National Insurance numbers, leading to fears of identity theft or the targeting of armed forces' personnel by terrorists. The MoD then admitted that two other laptops containing similar recruitment information dating back as far as 1969 had also gone missing in 2005 and 2006. Neither has been recovered. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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