Mark Hackett, the Chief Executive of Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust (SUHT), has made a formal commitment to improve data security after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found SUHT in breach of the Data Protection Act. On 19 October 2009 a member of SUHT staff left an unencrypted laptop containing sensitive personal information in a…
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WA: Prosecutors: Municipal Court worker passed credit card numbers to ID theft ring
Levi Pulkkinen reports: What could that Seattle speeding ticket cost? Your identity, according to federal court filings released Thursday. In a six-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court, federal prosecutors assert a Seattle Municipal Court employee passed account information into an identity theft ring in which four people are presently charged. Federal prosecutors claim Diamond…
Clinton urges China to investigate breaches
Robert Burns of the Associated Press reports: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday urged China to investigate cyber intrusions that led Google to threaten to pull out of that country – and challenged Beijing to publish its findings. “Countries that restrict free access to information or violate the basic rights of Internet users…
25,000 Indian email ids found on hacker forums
Thanuja BM reports: The last couple of years have seen criminals hacking websites to steal personal information for monetary gains. Now, security firm Trend Micro has come out with a report which said that there are about 25,000 Indian email addresses and passwords on different hacker forums on the internet. The report further stated that…
Parents Sue Virginia Tech After Son's Suicide
Ryan Abbott reports: The parents of a Virginia Tech student who committed suicide say the school failed to follow protocol to protect students after the April 2007 mass killing there. His parents say Daniel Kim, 21, told friends he was “ashamed of being Asian” and was afraid he resembled Seung-Hui Cho, who shot 27 students…
UK: Privacy watchdog takes action after thousands of health records are stolen
Mark Hackett, the Chief Executive of Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust (SUHT), has made a formal commitment to improve data security after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found SUHT in breach of the Data Protection Act. On 19 October 2009 a member of SUHT staff left an unencrypted laptop containing sensitive personal information in a…