Ministry of Justice Loses Important Data

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In two separate incidents the Ministry of Justice lost important and sensitive information. The first incident occurred when encrypted data of the MoJ staff on a memory stick (pen drive) was lost. A staff member lost the stick containing budget spreadsheets which had the names, national insurance and employee numbers of more than 1,500 MoJ staff.

Another instance involved the loss of a portable hard drive by IT supplier EDS containing data of 256 people. Unfortunately this had personal information about HM Prison Service staff and was being used to transfer data between systems.

This is not just a simple data breach but a security breach as well and the two incidents highlight the fact that security systems are not in place and that transfer of data should be made in an extremely secure fashion to prevent such incident from happening in the future. It has happened before and will happen again unless the government, across all departments tighten their security measures so that yet another security breach does not happen.

All an MoJ spokesperson had to say was, “Whilst any loss of data is regrettable all, MoJ incidents have been reported and the necessary action taken.”

Source: ZDNet