Ministry of Defence Breaches Data of 1.7 Million People
In another incident of a government data breach, possibly 1.7 million people may have had their personal information exposed by the British Ministry of Defence:
“…In some cases this would include data such as bank details, passport, National Insurance and National Health Service numbers, driver’s licence information and details of next of kin.”
link: Missing British computer drive could hold data on 1.7M people
The question is ‘why were these data not encrypted?’. There has to be consequences for this level of clumsy security with people’s private, confidential information. It is simply inept handling of sensitive information for almost two million people. All those people should receive free credit monitoring to protect against identity theft.
Catherine Forsythe
Tags: credit monitoring, data breach, encryption, identity theft, Ministry of Defence, privacy, security
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October 13th, 2008 at 11:05 am
The sad thing is that this data has been lost whilst inside a secure building. Normally they lose the laptop too but this time it was stolen from under their noses whilst in a secure room in a secure building.
There is no hope for our data if this really is the case.