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[Archive] Police laptop sold at car-boot sale
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:09:45 -0400
Scottish police have been embarrassed by the appearance of a confidential laptop at a car-boot sale. The laptop contained road accident crash victim pictures, according to the BBC. The Lothian and Borders Police had disposed of the unwanted device through a third-party 'specialist' firm, it said. It was bought at a Glasgow car-boot sale by a computer engineer. The computer's hard drive also held data on 200 police officers, yet the system was not password-protected. [...] http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=431&blogid=4 _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 349 incidents over 6 years.
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