The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is reminding charities that personal information must be handled securely after finding the Alzheimer’s Society in breach of the Data Protection Act. The Alzheimer’s Society reported three separate breaches involving personal information to the ICO during 2009. Several unencrypted laptops were stolen during a burglary at their office in Cardiff…
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Customers’ Personal Information Found In Macy’s Dumpster
Jeff Bernthal reports: A surprising find outside the downtown St. Louis Macy’s store. Documents containing personal information including social security numbers. Heather Cole reported on documents blowing in the wind last fall for Missouri Lawyers Weekly. She found open dumpsters outside the downtown Macy’s with papers containing debit card numbers but no names of any…
Online Robbery: Hackers Steal $50,000. Bank Says ‘Tough Luck’
Kathy Kristof reports on a story that should make everyone who banks online think about whether they, too, are at risk: …. Seven years ago, Fan Bao opened a checking account at Bank of America to facilitate his small import-export business called ZICO USA. When he needed to wire money, he or his wife, Cathy…
UK: NHS appraisal toolkit yanked offline
John Leyden reports: The UK’s Department of Health has taken the highly unusual step of suddenly taking a doctors’ appraisal website offline for three weeks over concerns it was vulnerable to hacking attacks. The NHS Appraisal Toolkit was taken down on Tuesday (9 February) and is not expected to return until 3 March. The site…
MN: Counterfeit credit card defendant pleads guilty
James Walsh reports: Like dominos down the line from the first one tipped, federal investigators expect Wednesday’s guilty plea by a Fridley man to bring down an international counterfeit credit card scheme headquartered here in the Twin Cities. Olayemi Lateef Banjoko pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, but he is…
Two arrested in Texas on access device fraud charges
Two Mexican nationals have been arrested and charged with access device fraud after more than 53 allegedly counterfeit credit cards in the name of others were discovered by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents as the two attempted to enter the United States from Mexico, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. A federal criminal…