MOJ fined over prison data leak

[Lee J <lee () riskbasedsecurity com>]

http://www.itv.com/news/wales/story/2013-10-22/moj-fined-over-inmates-records/

he incident was reported to the Information Commissioner's Office, which
found that a lack of audit trails and other procedures meant the breach
would have gone unnoticed if the recipients had not reported it.

An internal investigation found that the same error had occurred on two
previous occasions in the previous month, with details sent to other
inmates' families. Police and a member of prison staff were sent to the
recipients' home addresses and checks were made to ensure the files had
been deleted.

The data breach came to light after one of the recipients contacted the
prison in 2011 saying they had received an email from the prison clerk
about an upcoming visit, along with a file containing 1,182 prisoners'
names, ethnicities, addresses, sentence length and release dates.


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