MTAS and other NHS websites

[Peter Tomlinson]

vickyvicky@egypt.com wrote:

> Quoting Matthew Byng-Maddick <ukcrypto@lists.colondot.net>:
>
>>> This was really only a minor breach of security, an act of stupidity,
>>> although maybe symptomatic of a general attitude.
>>
>> Please feel free to tell that to someone whose sexual orientation (not
>> well-known to colleagues) had their data revealed to Channel 4 News. I'm
>> sure they'll agree with you that it was only a "minor breach of 
>> security".
>>
>> The question in my mind is now, "if this is only a minor breach of 
>> security
>> what do you class as a major breach?".
>
> Mathew
>
> Obviously this is more than a minor breach of security, and I'm not  
> trying to underplay the importance of this to anyone whose personal  
> data was made public.
> The point that I was trying to make, though, is that this was a  
> one-off goof. A mistake like this would not in itself have led to the  
> site being off line for 10 days. Something more sinister must be 
> going  on as well.
>
Or an almighty mess.

Peter