Greater Manchester Police has paid a fine of 120,000 pounds after a breach involving the theft of a memory stick containing sensitive information, Publicservice.co.uk reports. The stick was not password-protected and was stolen from an officer’s home. It contained details on more than 1,000 individuals connected to crime investigations. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that Greater Manchester Police regularly used unencrypted memory sticks to transport data, the report states. The police experienced a similar breach in 2010 and has since then failed to implement the proper safeguards and data protection training, the ICO found.
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