Daily Mail Loses Laptop With Staff’s Private Info
The latest security breach involving a stolen laptop has recently been reported by Northcliffe Media, owner of the Daily Mail. The lost computer contained sensitive information on the company’s employees, such as names, addresses, bank accounts and sort codes of Mail and General Trust staff.
According to company representatives quoted by the Register, the said laptop was password protected but most likely not encrypted. Northcliffe Media warned its staff of the risk they were exposed to advised them to contact their bank in order to prevent future problems.
The letter, signed by group finance director M J Hindley, said:
The likelihood is that this theft was carried out in an opportunistic manner by a thief who will not realise that there is any personal data on the laptop and who may just erase what is on the hard disk in order to disguise the fact that the laptop is stolen.
