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Bord Gáis data security expert had laptop stolen – report

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Dissent

Elaine Edwards provides an update on a breach previously covered here and here:

A staff member at Bord Gáis who downloaded personal data on more than 93,000 customers to a laptop that was subsequently stolen had specific responsibility for ensuring the protection of data, a report has found.

A report on the investigation by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) into the theft of four laptops from Bord Gáis’s office on Foley Street in Dublin on June 5th was published yesterday.

One of the computers was not encrypted. It was initially believed to contain the banking details of about 75,000 people, but during the investigation it emerged the details of 93,857 customers had been compromised.

The machine contained details such as bank account numbers, home addresses and branch details of people who had switched their electricity supply from the ESB as part of Bord Gáis’s “big switch” campaign.

Read more in the Irish Times.

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