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UK: Police personal data found on discarded floppy
From: "Dan O'Donnell" <dano () well com>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:22:40 -0800
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7160490.stm> Police data details found at dump A senior police officer has apologised after confidential details of staff were found on a dump in Devon. The details, on a floppy disk, included names, addresses, telephone numbers and ranks of employees of Devon and Cornwall Police. The disk was in an obsolete computer that had been used by the force and had been sent for recycling. Ass Ch Con Bob Pennington apologised to staff and said the matter was being investigated. Recycling centre "We take our responsibilities for protecting all information seriously and are extremely concerned as to how this single disk was not removed before the machine was taken out of use," he said. "Recycling old computers was a conscious decision taken by the force as part of an overall cost cutting exercise and hard drives are always wiped clean but it appears that on this occasion the floppy disk has been overlooked." Information stored on the disk also included firearms qualifications. It was found by a man looking for spare computer parts at a recycling centre in Exeter, who alerted a national newspaper. It follows the loss of details for millions of hospital patients, learner drivers and child benefit claimants. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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- UK: Police personal data found on discarded floppy Dan O'Donnell (Dec 26)
- Re: UK: Police personal data found on discarded floppy lyger (Dec 26)
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- Re: UK: Police personal data found on discarded floppy Brian Honan (Dec 27)
- Re: UK: Police personal data found on discarded floppy lyger (Dec 26)
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