Tag: data destruction

Articles

• 

  ICO Fines NHS Surrey Over “Truly Shocking & Disturbing” Data Destruction

  • 19 July 2013

  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued NHS Surrey with a monetary penalty of £200,000 after more than 3,000 patient records were found on a second hand computer bought through an online auction site. The sensitive information was inadvertently left on the computer...

  Read more
• Data Hiding in Disposed Assets – Four Places to Look

  • 03 January 2012

  a single thumb drive could represent thousands of customer records This article has been contributed by Jim Kegley of U.S. Micro Corporation. Destroying data before it leaves a customer’s location is the only way to guard against the inherent risk of shipping data-bearing IT assets....

  Read more