The Home Office has had to dramatically revise its estimates of the amount of data contained on a memory stick lost by third-party contractor PA Consulting last year. The department’s newly released Resource Accounts for 2008-09 (PDF) say that the USB device containing Police National Computer and prisoner data actually held 377,000 records, 250,000 more…
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Confidential documents found by Worthing Town Hall bins
Confidential council papers containing residents’ bank details and addresses have been found dumped outside a town hall. The documents also include information about an investigation into flytipping, a bill to a letting agents for cockroach extermination and a document relating to a fraud interview. Read more in The Argus
Residents’ data lost in stolen council laptops
Residents’ personal data held by North Somerset Council has gone missing after laptops were stolen. It remains unknown whether or not the device on which the confidential details were held was protected. The local authority is yet to encrypt all of its mobile electronic equipment. A total of thirteen council laptops have been stolen over…
DWP does not keep track of CIS security breaches
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that it does not keep a running total of security breaches committed on its sensitive Customer Information System (CIS) database, prompting accusations that it is not taking adequate steps to protect personal data from intruders. […] The DWP said it did not know how many security…
London Borough of Sutton will improve security in wake of breaches
London Borough of Sutton has agreed to take action to comply with data security requirements and has signed an Undertaking to assure the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that personal data will be kept securely in future. The ICO has found London Borough of Sutton in breach of the Data Protection Act after several data security…
Police files found in city skip
A police investigation is under way to find out how files containing details of more than 60 people who applied for jobs with the [Police Service of Northern Ireland] ended up in a skip. The documents were discovered by a contractor in Ann Street in Belfast this week and were handed over to DUP Upper…