We are all aware of the fine of almost £1m to Nationwide for their lost laptop. This single laptop was stolen from an employee's house but it is reported that Nationwide failed to report the loss to the FSA.
The Nationwide claimed that the information on it could not have been used for identity fraud as there were no PIN numbers, passwords or account balance information on it. However, it appears the laptop may have contained names, addresses and account numbers. This morning walking to the office there was parked a car with a laptop on the back seat with the window back window open and nobody in the car or in sight of the car. How many cases have you heard of where people put the laptop in the boot of their car and it then gets broken into? Or of people whose office just had the opportunist ...
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