USB stick containing social services’ information found on a pavement
March 29, 2010
A USB stick that contained social services’ confidential information about children in care has been found on a pavement in Stoke-on-Trent.
The Staffordshire newspaper The Sentinel reported that dozens of sensitive Stoke-on-Trent City Council documents were discovered on the memory stick, and includes records of foster carers, family court proceedings, parenting assessments, child custody arrangements and the psychological history of youngsters.
It reported that the information on the memory stick was not encrypted, which is against the council’s own policy. Council officials have launched an urgent investigation into how the security breach happened.
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