Elaine Edwards reports: Three large insurance companies have pleaded guilty to illegally using social welfare information on individuals which they obtained through a private investigator. FBD, Zurich and Travelers Insurance all pleaded guilty to 10 sample charges each after they were prosecuted for breaches of the Data Protection Act. The prosecutions followed a complaint from…
Month: February 2012
Why Data Security Regulation is Bad
Danny Lieberman comments: The first government knee-jerk reaction in the face of a data breach is to create more government privacy compliance regulation. This is analogous to shooting yourself in the foot while you hold the loaded weapon in one hand and apply band-aids with the other. Democracies like Israel, the US and the UK…
Update: Texas pays for data breach
Kelley Shannon provides an update on one of the biggest breaches in 2011: The taxpayer tab for individual credit monitoring after a data breach in Comptroller Susan Combs’ office has topped $600,000, and Combs’ campaign is paying extra to resolve routine credit glitches in some cases. Though investigations continue into the data exposure revealed in…
TicketWeb security breached by fake Adobe scammers
Carrie-Ann Skinner reports: TicketWeb has suffered a security breach which saw emails containing malicious links purporting to be from Adobe sent to its customers. On February 11 customers of the British ticketing site reported receiving up to four emails all with the subject ‘Action Required: Update Your PDF Application’. The email claimed that the recipient’s…
UK: Croydon and Norfolk County councils fined by ICO for data breaches
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served monetary penalties totalling £180,000 to two councils for failing to keep highly sensitive information about the welfare of children secure. Croydon Council has been handed a penalty of £100,000 after a bag containing papers relating to the care of a child sex abuse victim was stolen from a…
T-mobile Hacked Again and Data leaked with more to come from @Chriss10011
content/images/gallery/random3/t-mobile-big-dance-leaked-pastebin-com_.png @Chriss10011 has hacked and leaked data from t-mobile. Now its not the first time this year we have seen them hacked and im sure it wont be the last time either. This time the website that was hacked is The Big Dance website. This time its resulted in so far said to be "the secret…