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Data breach at LKA Lower Saxony

Data breach at LKA Lower Saxony

Date: 10.07.2019

Responsible body: Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office

Type of data breach: highly sensitive information was stolen 

Already on 08.05.2019 a briefcase is said to have been stolen from a private car by an official of the LKA. According to information from the Ministry of the Interior yesterday (10.07.2019), the briefcase contained highly sensitive information from the area of operational information procurement of the LKA Lower Saxony. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the fact that the employee was working in the area of information procurement for Islamism was particularly serious.

Categories of data: Not known

Practical tip: never store highly sensitive data unattended and accessible to third parties

Country: Germany / Lower Saxony

Fines: none

Source: ndr

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