Henry McDonald reports: Royal Navy investigators flew to Belfast last week after a memory stick containing “restricted” information on naval manoeuvres and personnel around the UK was reported missing. The Observer has learnt that two senior detectives from the Royal Navy Police’s Special Investigation Branch met members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to…
Month: December 2009
Welcome Computerworld readers
As Robert McMillan of IDG News Service kindly pointed out, this site initially reported the lawsuit against Radiant Systems and its distributor, Computer World Inc., over a week ago. If you’re new to this site, you can find that story here. In a subsequent post, I mentioned some other restaurants that had been hacked while…
KS: Wichita Student Private Information Online
Deb Farris reports: Many Wichita parents are angry after learning their children’s names, ages, addresses and phone numbers are listed on an internet web site. […] We tracked it down to the Wichita school district. The website is used to make maps and give directions. A spokesperson for the district says in the fall the…
NZ: Civil service warned: do more to protect privacy
Kara Segedin reports: Privacy commissioner Marie Shroff released her report for the year ending June 30, 2009 showing critical failings in government departments’ handling of information. […] There were 806 privacy complaints this year, up 22 per cent from last year. “I have given the public sector a wake-up call to better protect privacy, in…
Update: Court to decide what time, trouble are worth in Hannaford breach
Judy Harrison reports: Whether Hannaford Bros. customers may recover damages for the time and trouble it took them to straighten out their bank or credit card accounts after the Scarborough-based firm’s computer system was breached in late 2007 and early 2008 now is up to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The justices have never considered…
UK: Laptop Theft Debated by Councillors
A four-day lapse between council staff realising a laptop containing nearly 15,000 postal voter details was missing and reporting it to police was called into question last week. A preliminary report containing the chronology of events surrounding the theft of the laptop – which contained names, addresses, dates of birth and signatures – was put…