Missing data found in lunchbox

Leicester City Council has been forced to admit that a missing USB memory stick containing key codes for several thousand vulnerable residents’ front doors has turned up in an employee’s lunchbox.
The stick went missing in mid-March and contained key codes to open boxes outside the homes of users of the council’s care service which contained front door keys. The council changed thousands of codes as a precaution.
But it has now found the missing USB stick, in a member of staff’s lunchbox.The council is quoted as saying: “We have continued our search for the missing data stick and, as a result, can confirm that it was found over the weekend. As soon the data stick had been recovered, we ran a series of tests on it which indicated that the data on it has not been accessed during the period the device was missing.
“We are continuing with our investigation into the incident and will report fully on its findings as soon as this has been completed.”
Under the terms of the Data Protection Act, Leicester City Council had informed the Information Commissioner’s Office about the missing memory stick, although it is not clear what, if any, action will now be taken.