A PC hard drive containing personal information of more than 500,000 student loan recipients was left unsecured for extended periods of time by government employees and was not protected by a password or encryption.Thankfully this wasn’t in the UK, but stories like this are far too common and unnecessary with today’s technology.
Read the full story here https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/lost-hard-drive-with-student-loan-data-lacked-password-protection-1.1744884
