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. A member of the public found an unencrypted/non-password protected USB memory stick, which had been lost by a HAL employee which exposed ten individuals’ details including names, dates of birth, passport numbers, and the details of up to 50 HAL security personnel. The stick was passed to a newspaper which took copies of the data before giving it back to HAL. The ICO’s investigation found that only 2% of the 6,500-strong workforce had been trained in data protection.
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