Fonte: Icon UK
Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to ensure that the personal data held on its network was properly secured.
On 16 October 2017 a member of the public found a USB memory stick, which had been lost by a HAL employee. The stick, which contained 76 folders and over 1,000 files was not encrypted or password protected.
The member of the public viewed the material it contained at a local library.
Although the amount of personal and sensitive personal data held on the stick comprised a small amount of the total files, of particular concern was a training video which exposed ten individuals’ details including names, dates of birth, passport numbers, and the details of up to 50 HAL aviation security personnel.
The stick was passed to a national newspaper which took copies of the data before giving the stick back to HAL.
ICO Director of Investigations, Steve Eckersley, said:
“Data Protection should have been high on Heathrow’s agenda.
But our investigation found a catalogue of shortcomings in
corporate standards, training and vision that indicated otherwise.
“Data protection is a boardroom issue and it is imperative that businesses have the policies, procedures and training in place to minimise any vulnerabilities of the personal information that has been entrusted to them.”
The ICO investigation found that only two per cent of the 6,500-strong workforce had been trained in data protection.
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