This time, it’s members of the British Council who have lost their details.
Back in the summer the company lost data from the Scottish Ambulance service.
Courier firm TNT has lost the sensitive data of 2,000 British Council employees on a computer disc, it has emerged.

The disc, which was lost in December, contained information including names, salaries, national insurance details and bank account numbers. It was an encrypted optical disc.

The disc was sent by “the usual secure TNT courier service”, a spokesperson at the British Council said, but it had not been received by the department’s human resources staff who were expecting it.

“TNT has informed us that they are still taking steps to find the disk,” the spokesperson said. “The data only included staff records and no information about external British Council contacts is involved.”

Source ; CIO

I don’t know if it’s the intention of the article but it implies to me, that the loss of staff data is secondary to the information that could have been about contracts rtc.

The types of data losses are very frustrating, companies are trying to cut costs all the time and transport is one area. It must be cheaper to pay secure, dedicated courier than it is to pay PR people to bury the news…

In the means time, along with the ambulance service, the prison service, and the child benefit agency, someone has a nice pile of data on people in the Uk.

Sarah

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