Mick Gorrill, Head of Enforcement at the ICO, said: “In September 2010, the ICO opened an investigation into allegations that a database containing the personal information of 250,000 individuals who had purchased tickets for football matches in the 2006 FIFA World Cup competition in Germany, had been unlawfully sold on the black market. This followed…
Month: January 2011
(Update) Hacker who planned to attack 74,000 computers worldwide gets suspended sentence
An Adelaide computer hacker who offered software that could capture people’s bank details for sale on an “internet criminal bazaar” has received a suspended jail term. Anthony Scott Harrison, 21, used the internet to teach himself the necessary hacking and programming skills to attack 2370 computers world wide in 2009. He also modified and sold…
(update) Vodafone fires staff after security breaches
Vodafone has fired a number of employees following an investigation into security breaches on the weekend. Customer records were leaked after a password to the telco’s internet database was shared by a number of people. Since the incident, Vodafone says it has let employees go and contacted the New South Wales Police. Read more on…
Case Note 210870 [2010] NZ Priv Cmr 24 : Medical centre fails to establish identity of requester and discloses health information about a patient to their former partner
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand: A man, M, who was involved in legal proceedings with his former partner, X, was a patient of a medical centre. The medical centre previously provided medical care to M and his family when he and X were still together. X visited the medical centre with…
UK: Dorset HealthCare Trust send confidential health faxes by mistake
Joanna Codd reports: Highly confidential faxes about people with mental health problems have been mistakenly sent to a Bournemouth business over a period of 18 months. Despite the business alerting officials to the problem, the documents have continued to arrive at the offices of Cole Valuations in Exeter Road at the rate of two or…
WA: HACKED: Kadlec notifying patients of computer server breach
From the staff of Tri-City Herald: Kadlec Regional Medical Center officials announced today that patients are being notified that one of the hospital’s computer servers containing brain scan and other patient studies was hacked in September. Files housed on the server included information including a patient’s name, birth date, age, gender, medical record number and…