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A customer informed Nico that their credit card details were stolen from Nico's database and used unlawfully. An investigation revealed Nico's PC was hacked because an employee failed to password protect or encrypt the database after editing it. This data loss affected the customer through credit card theft and exposed Nico's company to legal liability under data protection law. To prevent future data loss, Nico must implement security measures like mandatory passwords and encryption on their customer database.

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Data Loss Questions

A customer informed Nico that their credit card details were stolen from Nico's database and used unlawfully. An investigation revealed Nico's PC was hacked because an employee failed to password protect or encrypt the database after editing it. This data loss affected the customer through credit card theft and exposed Nico's company to legal liability under data protection law. To prevent future data loss, Nico must implement security measures like mandatory passwords and encryption on their customer database.

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Shakila.D Raks Pallikkoodam
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Topic: Data Loss Consequences

1) Nico has been contacted by one her regular customers who says that her credit card
details have been stolen from Nico’s database and used elsewhere unlawfully. After some
investigation it appears that Nico’s PC was hacked. It also appears that the worker Nico
employs was partly to blame for not password protecting or encrypting the database after
editing.

a) Who will be affected by this data loss? Explain how

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b) Which law has been broken by Nico’s company?

[1]

c) How can Nico ensure that this doesn’t happen again?

[5]

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