Veronika Belenkaya of The NY Daily News reports that the law firm of Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon cleaned house by leaving six dumpsters stuffed with confidential case files out on the street. The firm represents clients such as Wells Fargo Bank, Papa John’s Pizza, and others in the banking and insurance industries. According…
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Bank of Bermuda web site hacked?
Sirkka Huish of BDA Sun reports that the of Bank of Bermuda was hacked. The article suggests that the hack involved the online banking site, but the bank has provided no details or confirmation that the hackers gained access via the web site, and did not respond to a request for clarification from this site.
UK: Sensitive data on eBay computers, Part 2
Yesterday, I posted a story from BBC about how patient data from two hospitals was found on hard drives being sold to the public. That same study by BT and University of Glamorgan also found corporate data. Channel4 News in the UK summarizes some of what was found. To excerpt from their summary as it…
UK: St Albans patients’ data was on stolen laptops
The Herts Advertiser is reporting that although West Herts Hospitals Trust was aware that three laptops had been stolen — the first in March 2006, the second in 2007, and the third in February 2008 — it was only last month that the trust learned that they contained personally identifiable patient data. The way the…
HK: Privacy push at leak hospitals
Nickkita Lau of The Standard reports: The privacy commission and Hospital Authority have launched a HK$200,000 campaign to protect patients’ details following leaks at public hospitals. The Care for Patients – Protect Their Personal Data campaign is the largest the commission has organized for a specific profession.
UK: HBOS postal error could breach data security law
Maryrose Fison of Citywire reports: HBOS has accidentally sent the details of a number of customers to a consumer who lodged a complaint. The bank sent an elderly customer what appears to be a screen shot from its customer relations department, giving the names of 11 customers and corresponding complaint numbers and dates.