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A lost USB stick that contained police information described as ‘dynamite’ was found in the street outside a station.
According to reports, a stick containing more than 2,000 pages of highly sensitive and confidential information, intended to be seen only by senior officers, was found on a pavement near a Greater Manchester police station.
The USB stick [...]

A third of IT managers are unaware of social networking use on their networks.
While Web 2.0 applications have been adopted by 99 per cent of end-users to support business processes, 38 per cent of IT professionals believe there is no social networking present on their networks.
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Yorkshire Building Society has been found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
An unencrypted laptop, belonging to the former Chelsea Building Society that had recently merged with Yorkshire Building Society, was stolen from its Cheltenham premises. The laptop contained a substantial part of the CBS customer database [...]

The largest data breach ever suffered by the US military was carried out using a USB Flash drive, the US deputy defense secretary William Lynn has revealed.
In an article in the journal Foreign Affairs, Lynn recounted how in 2008 a military laptop in the Middle East was accessed by an operative from a foreign government [...]

ICO slams Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust after it loses patient records.
Yet another NHS Trust has been found in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) after it lost sensitive patient records stored on an unencrypted CD.
Data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) explained that the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust lost a CD [...]

The UK operation of Zurich Insurance has been fined £2.27m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for losing personal details of 46,000 customers.
It is the highest fine levied on a single firm for data security failings.
Margaret Cole, the FSA’s director of enforcement and financial crime, said: “Zurich UK let its customers down badly.”
Stephen Lewis, chief [...]