[ISN] Encrypted USB stick glitch led to Council data loss

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:26:13 -0600 (CST)
http://news.techworld.com/security/3262523/encrypted-usb-stick-glitch-led-to-council-data-loss/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
24 February 11

A council that used encrypted memory sticks has been handed a reprimand 
from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after an employee’s 
struggle to use the technology resulted in data being lost on an 
unsecured replacement drive.

According to a release put out by the ICO, Cambridgeshire County Council 
lost a stick containing case and meeting notes relating to least six 
‘vulnerable adults’ in the council’s care, which it reported to the 
organisation last November.

The highly unusual dimension to this case is that the non-encrypted 
memory stick had only been used after an employee “encountered problems” 
using the encrypted one handed out by the Council.

The nature of the problem has not been revealed but underlines the 
problems organisations can encounter when using potentially complex 
technologies such as encryption.

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