UK COMPUTERS STOLEN BILLERICAY: No need to panic over nursery break-in:
BILLERICAY: No need to panic over nursery break-in
Thursday, October 01, 2009, 09:39
Allaying fears that hackers could access personal information about the 78 children who use the Dizzy Ducks Nursery at Buttsbury School, owner Sian Nisbett, said: "All our computers are password protected, the hard drives are encrypted.
"The information we hold about the children and their families is all stored on a web-based system rather than being kept on a hard drive.
"It is run by a well-known company and used in lots of nurseries."
The thieves stole computers, hard drives, screens, a printer and a digital camera from the office, in Perry Street, Billericay but thankfully the memory card was stored separately so they will be unable to view photos of the children.
Administrator Claire Hunt explained that the cleaner discovered the break in at 5pm on the Sunday and contacted the management, who in turn called in police.
She said: "It was inconvenient, we had to work from our other nursery at Mayflower or from home for a few days and it delayed us in sending out invoices and our electronic newsletter."
However, as soon as they were up and running the staff sent out a copy of the newsletter to all of the parents informing them of the break in, which happened on September 20, and reiterating that the details were safe.
"We had a few parents asking questions but after we had explained that it was impossible for anyone to access the data there were no major concerns," said Claire.
There was no damage to the actual nursery, which is completely separate to the office, and sessions resumed as normal on the Monday morning.
News of the thefts comes just a week after the Gazette reported that police were warning parents to be on their guard following reports of suspicious looking men hanging around schools and other areas where children may be.
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