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Subject: [ISN] Details of 'vulnerable' residents on stolen computer
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2012-06-12 8:34:30
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1206120334180.11467 () infosecnews ! org
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http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/details-of-vulnerable-residents-on-stolen-computer.17848796
By Gerry Braiden
Herald Scotland
12 June 2012
AN investigation is under way after a laptop computer containing the
bank account details of thousands of companies and individuals was
stolen from council offices in Glasgow.
Almost 38,000 city council "customers" had their personal details stored
on the stolen laptop, which, although it was password protected, was not
encrypted.
Among those whose details were on the computer were thousands of
vulnerable Glasgow residents who receive care grants, as well as people
who receive winter fuel payments.
As well as names and addresses, the bank account details of around
10,400 com-panies and 6100 individuals were stored on the laptop.
It is one of two stolen during a break-in at council offices in Cochrane
Street between May 28 and May 29. It comes just over two years after the
Information Commissioner's Office censured the council over loss of an
unencrypted memory stick with details of sex offenders, victims,
witnesses and case officers.
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