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Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 personal records
From: "Jon Turner" <jjturner () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:34:20 +0100
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4546434.ece
From Times OnlineAugust 16, 2008
Ministry of Justice loses 45,000 personal recordsKevin Dowling The Government's reputation for protecting people's sensitive electronic data has been dealt yet another blow with the revelation that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) lost the records of 45,000 people. The information included dates of birth, national insurance numbers, criminal records, and in a single incident, the loss of bank details and other information belonging to 27,000 people working for suppliers to the department. In another case, officials lost an "inadequately protected" laptop storing the job applications of 13 people who were applying for judicial positions with the service. The revelations in the department's annual accounts come after similar blunders saw two CDs with the child benefit records of 25 million families lost in the post and the loss of 658 laptops by the Ministry of Defence. In 30,000 cases the MoJ did not notify the people affected, judging that it did not need to do so after carrying out a risk assessment. In January an "inadequately protected" laptop containing records of 14,000 fine defaulters including names, dates of birth, addresses, offences, and - in a fifth of cases - national insurance numbers, went missing from a "secured" government office. In June 2007 records of 27,000 people working for suppliers to the MoJ, again kept on "inadequately protected" storage devices, were lost. _______________________________________________ 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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