As expected, another T-Mobile UK employee has pleaded guilty to selling customer data in a scheme that was first revealed in 2009: A former employee of T-Mobile UK has pleaded guilty to charges of stealing confidential information and selling it to a rival company. Last November, it was revealed that investigators at the UK’s Information…
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WA: Two charged in BECU ID theft thought to impact 100s
Levi Pulkkinen reports: Prosecutors have filed charges against two men believed to have defrauded hundreds of BECU [Boeing Employees Credit Union] members by “skimming” debit cards at Seattle-area ATMs. Having filed IDd theft-related charges against the men, King County prosecutors contend Seattle resident Claudiu Flaviu Tudor and Mihai Podaru stole the account information of hundreds…
UK: Small fines for a big problem
Not everyone thinks the ICO made a good decision in the first fines it levied for violation of the Data Protection Act. Jason Stampers writes, in part: But anyone hoping that the ICO was going to come down hard on such breaches will be dismayed. Since the ICO now has the power to levy fines…
UK: Hacker fined over Soas student password scam
A computer hacker who broke into the email accounts of hundreds of students has been fined £21,000. Daniel Woo, 23, a Bulgarian, admitted repeatedly posing as a student at the School of Oriental and African Studies in Bloomsbury, central London. Police said Woo, of Knightsbridge, took financial data, and fraud later occurred in some accounts….
NHS Choices criticised for leaking information to Facebook
Jeremy Kirk: The UK’s National Health Service plans to make clearer the privacy policy of its Choices health information website, which shares browsing information with Facebook, following complaints from a security expert and a lawmaker, an NHS spokesman said Thursday. The NHS Choices website incorporates Facebook’s “Like” button, which enables users to share information they find…
DPA fines – why ICO got it right
Stewart Room writes about the first fines imposed by the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office: I’ve heard two arguments that are critical of the ICO fines. They go something like this: (1) the fines were too low and (2) it’s wrong of ICO to fine a Local Authority when it didn’t fine Google. Let me try…