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UK: Security alert as thousands told bank details have been stolen
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:39:31 -0500
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/display.var.1216931.0.security_alert_as_thousands_told_bank_details_have_been_stolen.php THOUSANDS of county council staff are at risk of identity theft after their highly confidential bank and national insurance details were stolen. A lap top computer containing the personal information of up to 19,000 staff - complete with names and addresses - was taken in a street robbery. Despite the seriousness of the security breach, in a letter to staff Mike Weaver, the director of financial services at Worcestershire County Council, said he did not want to cause unnecessary concern'. advertisement He said the laptop was owned and being used by a member of staff employed by the council's IT supplier SERCO who was robbed outside the county several days ago'. "The personal details include names and addresses," he said. "Other details relating to national insurance and bank accounts are also held on the computer but are not so easily deciphered. "Although the theft appears random rather than planned and the computer is password protected, there is nevertheless a risk that this information might be misused." [...] -- Main site: http://www.pogowasright.org Main RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss Breaches RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/breaches.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 149 million compromised records in 580 incidents over 7 years.
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