Rajeev Sayal reports: More than 17,000 files containing the personal details of refugees and their families have been lost by the government, plunging the asylum system into chaos. The names, dates of birth, passport numbers and addresses of people applying to stay in Britain as well as details of their children are believed to be…
Category: Lost or Missing
MD: Missing HCC flash drive contained personal info on 70 DSS clients
On December 5, Harford Community College learned (pdf) that a flash drive containing personal information had been misplaced by an employee at its WAGE Connection office in Aberdeen, Maryland. The personal information of 70 Department of Social Service clients participating in the WAGE Connection program was on the missing drive and included their name, social…
IE: 8,000 NI patients’ medical records missing
A computer tape with medical records of more than 8,000 patients has disappeared en route from Northern Ireland to England, it was revealed today. It was sent from the Garden Street doctors’ surgery in Magherafelt, Co Derry, to an IT company in London which was updating the practice’s system. A courier picked up the details…
UK: Financial Workers Regularly Forget USB Sticks at Dry Cleaners
From the this-is-not-what-we-meant-by-cleaning-your-drive dept: As data loss reaches an all time high, a new survey shows financial workers in the UK are regularly forgetting USB sticks at the dry cleaners. According to a survey by Texas-based data security firm Credant Technologies, 9,000 USB sticks were forgotten in people’s pockets in the UK last year as…
UK: MoD admits 440 computer data devices have been lost or stolen
Ian Bruce reports: The Ministry of Defence admitted yesterday that 217 of its laptops, 47 desk-top computers, 80 hard drives and 96 memory sticks were lost or stolen during 2008, despite a high-profile security crackdown launched last summer. The latest figures mean more than 1640 of the department’s computers and other information devices have gone…
UK: Private Info Missing On Lost Disk
A good argument can be made not to count this as a breach, but the loss reminds us of the need to encrypt… A computer disk containing the details of 2,000 members of the British Council has been lost, it has been revealed. The details reportedly include names, national insurance numbers, salary and bank account…