WARNING - Skipton Finanical Services Data Breach.

James

Latest Data Breach:

Thousands of building society customers are at risk of identity fraud after a laptop containing their personal details was stolen.

Skipton Financial Services (SFS), a subsidiary of Skipton Building Society, said that details of 14,000 customers had been lost after a computer was stolen

Story from The Times (22 Dec 07) click here.

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Hopefully Martin will add this to: Ones Not To Miss.

Primrose

Luckily I've no money with them, but following an earlier theft of Nationwide customers' details when one of their employee's laptops was stolen from their home, I do think it's time these institutions got their security act together and stopped employees taking home laptops when such information is stored on them. Surely all this data should be stored on a central server, capable of being accessed remotely, but not permitted to be permanently held on laptops, but only on desktops which are not removed from the company's building? Or am I being naive about this?

Mikeyorks

Primrose wrote: »

Or am I being naive about this?

In general I fully agree with you. But it is sometimes necessary to outsource data for eg a specialist printing run that requires equipment you don't have and can only be done on the specialist premises. If they don't have a high speed network connection .. you do have to transport it on portable media. But you pre-check the security of the data when at the specialist printers and you transport it using one of your own staff.

Under circumstances like that but where the 3rd party does have the appropriate data connections - you don't normally prejudice your in-house core data by giving out ad-hoc accesses. Transporting it 'should' be safer. But the plethora of losses suggests that data is now being extracted for the flimsiest of reasons - and being given the flimsiest of security care.

However, on the bright side ...... it keeps James happy.;)

James

Skipton Freezes Accounts After Computer Theft:

Story click here.

Mikeyorks

It does also tell you the accounts were frozen ..... in the original you posted.

If I bump into someone wearing a sandwich board proclaiming "the end of the IT world is nigh" ........ will it be you:D