It is not unusual to find daily news items of laptops that have gone missing or jump drives that are lost. However, it is not every day that a bank reports the loss of a server:

“The loss of a computer server from a Kwun Tong branch of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation could lead to the leakage of private data of 159,000 customers.”

link: Bank loses server

It seems that the data were encrypted. “Internet Society chairman Charles Mok Nai-kwong said even though the server has been encrypted, there may still be ways to access the data.” Handling a data breach with such statements is not a great way to reassure anxious banking customers.

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
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Tags: bank, encryption, server, data breach, privacy, security, identity theft