Doug Cornelius writes for Compliance Building on the 10 most embarrassing data breaches of late. Spanning the globe, the list varies in technique used to perform the data breaches, and resulting scope of damage. Take a look and see for yourself if you agree with this top ten.
Royal Navy
Imagine losing information on everyone who had applied to join the armed forces including passport numbers, medical histories, and bank details. Of course, it was not encrypted. It was just sitting in a laptop in the back of a car. That’s what happened Jan. 9, 2008, in Birmingham, U.K., when a Royal Navy Officer left the laptop in his car and it was promptly stolen.
Read about all ten incidents here.
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