After the Bank of Ireland, the Ulster Bank also loose notebooks with customers information.
Data breach becomes more and more an issue today: As all our personal data are stored in electronic form, it’s easy for employers to take data away to work at home or attend external meetings with their laptops. This should be totally prohibited!. It has been proven that even encrypted laptops are not secure! If access to company data must be performed for a good reason, set up a remote access (VPN) with strong encryption and access rights.
On privacyrights.org, there is a huge list of reported data breaches (updated weekly). This reference can be useful when you need to present a project to a board of managers not security aware: “Take the right countermeasures to never come on this list!”.