Deloitte has admitted losing a laptop containing thousands of people's pension details, but said the data was encrypted and the machine password-protected, and it had no evidence the data had been misused.
The laptop contained 150,000 railway workers' details as well as details on all UK Vodafone staff with pensions and other unnamed pension funds. The lappy was stolen from a Deloitte staffer's handbag last month. The machine held personal information but not bank details. Deloitte was auditing the pension funds.
This sounds like yet another data loss with many thousands of people's personal details exposed, but it's a good news story. Deloitte's have a policy that all notebooks be protected by a hardware password, an OS password and data encryption, and according to a statement this notebook had all three. Well done to D&T!
