News emerged yesterday of two separate data losses that will once more leave UK Goverment agencies red-faced. In Northern Ireland, the Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA) admitted that it had lost 6,000 driver records on two discs being sent to the agency’s headquarters in Swansea. The DVA confessed that the data had not been encrypted and included details of 7,685 vehicles and more than 6,000 vehicle keepers.
The data includes the keeper’s name, address, registration mark of the vehicle, chassis number, make and colour.
In a separate incident Finance Secretary John Swinney will today tell MSPs how a package containing details of 200 people went missing temporarily. The package containing pension benefit statements was lost after being sent from the Scottish Public Pensions Agency to NHS Greater Glasgow on October 26.
