Sep 28, 2010
Infosec: ACS:Law could face £500,000 fine for porn list leak
Here we go again, this time a law firm storing sensitive company data on the publicly facing web server. It’s the price you going to pay for not securingyour.info next time give us a call and all the embarrassment could be avoided. I love the piece from UK Information Commission (ICO), just classic, the next question to be asked then is how secure, encrypted and protected is their information. I would make sure it’s up to scratch before blurting this out in the media, at least with the press in this country:
The ICO said that ACS:Law had a number of questions to answer.
“The question we will be asking is how secure was this information and how it was so easily accessed from outside,” said Christopher Graham.
“We’ll be asking about the adequacy of encryption, the firewall, the training of staff and why that information was so public facing.
Link to the full story on the BBC site
