Pensions Trust faces grilling over stolen laptop security lapse

The Information Commissioner has launched an investigation into the theft of a laptop containing the details of 57,000 members of social housing pension schemes.

The commissioner will attempt to find out how the details, held by the Pensions Trust, came to be put at risk and whether action is needed to prevent similar data losses.

The computer stolen on 23 March held the details of around 50,000 members of the Social Housing Pension Scheme and a further 7,000 members of the Scottish Federation Housing Association Pension Scheme.

The data, which included bank account details, National Insurance numbers and salary details, was password-protected but not encrypted. It was taken from the offices of Northgate Arinso, which supplies the trust’s computerised pensions administration system.

The commissioner launched the investigation after it was contacted about the theft by the trust on 22 May.

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