Marks & Spencer in the clear over loss of staff data

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    Marks & Spencer in the clear over loss of staff data



    The information commissioner has dropped an enforcement notice against Marks & Spencer after the retailer encrypted every laptop across the organisation following a major security breach.

    The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued the enforcement notice in January after it found M&S in breach of the Data Protection Act, following the theft of an unecrypted laptop containing the personal information of 26,000 M&S employees.

    The laptop, which contained details on employees' names, salary details, addresses, national insurance numbers, dates of birth and phone numbers, was stolen from a printing company.

    The ICO cancelled the enforcement notice after Marks & Spencer confirmed it had completed its encryption programme in July.

    Darrell Stein, IT director at M&S, told the ICO in a letter on 8 July that all 4,352 laptops in the organisation across 11 countries had been encrypted using software from Utimaco.

    Read the whole article here.

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