Standard Life Data Loss
Posted on November 3rd, 2007 by admin
From the BBC
Around 15,000 Standard Life customers could be at risk of fraud after their personal details were lost by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The data was on a CD sent from the Revenue office in Newcastle to the company’s headquarters in Edinburgh.
How quaint. Sending data around on CDs. Never heard of Secure FTP?
The Revenue routinely sends CDs containing personal data on taxpayers to the insurance companies which hold their pensions.
So routinely spending money on couriers instead of the near-zero cost of transmission via the internet (as well as better security and less CO2 being put into the atmosphere).
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It seems they’re not interested in the technically adept - they just take the advice of someone I know not where from.
[…] in or going out are known and have adequate controls. It seems to me (especially when you count the Standard Life loss of 2 weeks ago) that this is more than freakish bad […]