Wigan lost unencrypted data on 43,000 children

Glyn Wintle, 04 September 2009

The ICO says that Wigan Council breached data protection law through allowing unencrypted data on school pupils to be downloaded to a laptop. The laptop was then stolen, holding personal data on most children and young people in Wigan's schools, about 43,000 pupils.
Source: Kable