Tom Burroughes reports: The UK government is to acquire the Swiss bank account details of up to 6,600 wealthy UK citizens suspected of evading tax after information was stolen from HSBC’s private bank in Switzerland by a software engineer, the Sunday Times (of London) reported. The report comes shortly after it was reported that the…
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UK: Outrage as hospital loses 2,000 records
Confidential health records belonging to 2,000 physiotherapy patients have been lost. Security is expected to be tightened at the Haywood Hospital in Burslem after the sensitive documents vanished. The Haywood Hospital, pictured below, owned and managed by NHS Stoke-on-Trent, provides rehabilitation, podiatry and other therapy services. The missing records relate to patients treated in or…
Prescriptions found on street spark probe
Ontario’s privacy commissioner is investigating after thousands of medical prescriptions were found blowing around on a street in Gatineau last week. The prescriptions date from 1994, and they contained personal information about patients who used to be clients of what used to be Nelson Drugs on Main Street in Old Ottawa East. The prescriptions ended…
Tax mix-up riles woman
Michelle Ruby reports from Canada: Darlene Clifford is concerned about her financial privacy after she received someone else’s RRSP tax receipt. The Brantford woman received her tax receipt, issued by Scotia Trust, in the mail last week. The top section of the three-part form contained her correct personal information. The middle and lower parts of…
‘Customer data from Vodafone, Unitymedia was stolen – report’
Customer data of Vodafone Germany and German cable network operator Unitymedia have been sold on the black market by dubious call centres, according to German magazine Capital citing from the investigation files of the state prosecutor’s office in Bonn. The stolen data concerns several thousands of customers. State prosecutor Fred Apostel confirmed that several telecom…
Arrest leads to large cache of stolen credit cards, driver’s licences, computers
Florence Loyie reports: City police found a stash of stolen credit cards, driver’s licences, debit cards and computers when they arrested a man wanted on 141 warrants last Friday. Officers in the downtown division special projects team were told David Shawn Tidman, 25, was at a residence near 145th Avenue and 27th Street. […] Police…