Ministry of Justice in the dock for catalogue of serious data breaches

guest · Dec 22, 2020

Ministry of Justice in the dock for catalogue of serious data breaches
December 22, 2020
https://www.computerweekly.com/news...e-dock-for-catalogue-of-serious-data-breaches

The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) reported 17 serious data breaches to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) during 2019-2020.

According to data contained in the MoJ annual report (2019-2020) and analysed by the Parliament Street think-tank, the department has been responsible for a catalogue of major incidents of personal data loss affecting a total of 121,355 people.
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These included a misplaced, unencrypted USB stick containing documents from a trial, accidental disclosure of the identify of an applicant and the names of children in a domestic violence case, and loss of a laptop and phone containing personal details of MoJ employees.

The MoJ also recorded 6,425 other data incidents, which were deemed not substantial enough to report to the ICO. Some 5,445 of these were labelled “unauthorised disclosure”, and 823 involved the loss of “inadequately protected electronic equipment, devices or paper documents”.
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