ICO fines Royal & Sun £150,000 for not preventing hard-drive theft

A stolen hard drive device – with 59,592 customers’ personal and bank details – from the West Sussex office of Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance, has prompted a £150,000 fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office. The data included customers’ names, addresses, account numbers and sort codes; there were also credit card details of 20,000 customers, but not CVV numbers or expiry dates.