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Confidential social services data found on USB stick in Stoke-on-Trent


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Records from the city council's social services department have been found on an unencrypted USB stick in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The stick was handed in by an IT consultant to the local newspaper, the Sentinel, on Friday, after he apparently found it lying on the pavement.

Confidential social services data found on USB stick in Stoke-on-Trent
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/confidential-social-services-data-found-on-usb/
Records from the city council's social services department have been found on an unencrypted USB stick in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The stick was handed in by an IT consultant to the local newspaper, the Sentinel, on Friday, after he apparently found it lying on the pavement.
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:56:00 GMT
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/confidential-social-services-data-found-on-usb/

Source: InfosecMagazine
Source Link: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/confidential-social-services-data-found-on-usb/


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