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FCA Issues Warnings over Data Misuse by Employees
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
However, the authority did not respond to questions about the specific nature of the data involved in these four cases.
Dr. Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at ImmuniWeb and a Fellow at the British Computer Society (BCS), said: “While such misconduct is certainly unacceptable, unfortunately many governmental entities on both sides of Atlantic face similar or even more dangerous incidents on a daily basis. Human factor and error are still among the key reasons of the disastrous data breaches, which happen because of someone’s negligence or carelessness.
“The misconduct of governmental employees’ is also caused by the increasing pressure from their employers in the terms of volume of work and tough deadlines, eventually pushing employees to take some work to their homes in overt breach of information security policies.
“Training and education are essential to prevent similar incidents in the future, while management should continually monitor that the team is not forced to work from home in order to meet the KPIs or deadlines.” Read Full Article
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