UK: Daily Mail publisher loses laptop with thousands of personal details

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/data-control/news/index.cfm?newsid=9904

The publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper has said a laptop containing the 
financial and personal details of thousands of staff and suppliers has 
been stolen, according to reports.

Details such as names, addresses, bank account numbers and sort codes were 
on the laptop, which was password protected, the Guardian newspaper 
reported.

In a letter to those who details were affected, Simon Dyson, finance 
director at Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers, and Martyn 
Hindley, his counterpart at sister company Northcliffe, said it was likely 
that the details had been erased by the thief.

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