Sunday, February 1, 2009

UK's Data Loss... Bad News, Good News, "Oh, no!"

"BAD NEWS."
from Steven J. Klein, via Risks Digest...
Bad news...
A National Health Service employee lost a flash drive containing personal information of up to 6,360 patients.

Good news...
The data on the flash drive was encrypted.

BAD NEWS...
The password was written on a sticky-note attached to the drive.

Paraphrased from the Lancashire Evening Post