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Re:Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found by galangalalgol on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:45AM (#31862807)
I'm with you on asking why that data was even on a removable drive. What possible use case is there for that? And if there is one, like transferring between airgapped networks, it seems you'd encrypt it at least.
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Re:Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found by akg_67 on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:15PM (#31871134)
The USB key was used to transfer the data from a government office to a service firm reviewing Covid19 related benefit claims and fund distribution. The employee mistake was to not delete data from USB key after transferring to the firm's system.
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Re:Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found by IncRnd on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:58AM (#31864312)
The data was planted on the usb by an Evil Maid[1], so the salaryman could gain face [2] as an everyman.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_maid_attack

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(sociological_concept)

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