Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found

Re:Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found by belter on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:24AM (#31861399)

It seems for the UK Ministry of Defense the going rate was 30 lost per year...

"...More than 120 USB memory sticks, some containing secret information, have been lost or stolen from the Ministry of Defence since 2004, it was reported earlier this year....Some 26 of those disappeared this year == including three which contained information classified as “secret”, and 19 which were “restricted”...."

"UK Ministry of Defense Loses Memory Stick with Military Secrets" (2008): https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/09/uk_ministry_o...

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Re:Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found by anonymousiam on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:12AM (#31862151)

USB media is now prohibited on any classified system. They've even gone as far as disabling the USB storage drivers. Even having a USB memory stick in a closed area is a big no no.

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Re:Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found by 0cVlTeIATBs on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:08AM (#31863373)

And so the floppy lives on.

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Re:Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found by toyg on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:39PM (#31865240)

Big if true. I mean, I don't put anything beyond UK authorities these days, but even just buying readers would be a struggle.

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Re:Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found by toyg on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:39PM (#31865251)

I always assumed most of those sticks are simply stolen by employees, like pens.

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