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Organisations 'risk losing personal data'
Category: Data security
9 September, 2008
Data security safeguards need to be improved or there will be more instances of lost personal data, it has been claimed.A UK specialist of secure IT disposal warns that tested methods should be relied on when removing equipment.
"It is no coincidence that of the recent data loss episodes, none have come when a specialist asset disposal organisation has been involved," says Jon Selby, marketing manager at Tier 1 Asset Management.
Mr Selby adds that data security will be protected if "water-tight" methods are used.
Data storage should also be secure, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) warned in August, adding that safeguards were needed because the volume of collected personal data had increased.
Jonathan Bamford, assistant commissioner at ICO said "progress has been disappointing".
IT manager Andrew Chapman, from Oxford, bought a server on eBay for £35 and found over one million details about customers from financial service providers including American Express and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Details included bank account numbers, names and addresses.
Mr Chapman said at the time that he was appalled such information was stored on the server.
