Newcastle Youth Offending Team breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt a laptop containing personal data which was later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The laptop – which contained personal data relating to 100 young people and sensitive personal data on 10 people – was reported stolen from a contractor’s…
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Louisiana law firm thinks it’s okay to dump records in trash, unshredded? Seriously, folks?
Don’t lawyers have a duty of confidentiality – apart from any state laws that might apply – about disposal of records with personal information? I am, well, frankly annoyed at all the news reports I’ve seen about lawyers or law firms not disposing of records securely. Here’s yet another one, this time from Louisiana: Below…
In Hannaford Data Breach Case, First Circuit Says Card Replacement and ID Theft Insurance are Reasonable Mitigation Damages and Compensable–Anderson v. Hannaford Bros.
I’ve been reading a number of analyses and commentaries on the First Circuit’s ruling in the Hannaford Bros data breach case. While some people have described the ruling as a “potential game-changer,” Venkat Balasubramani provides a less optimistic analysis of what the decision may portend. As a recap, most of the plaintiffs’ claims have been…
AL: Discarded personal information discovered in Shelby County
A FOX6 News viewer says personal information on hundreds of people was discovered in a trash storage company in Shelby County. Susan Beaty found copies of social security cards, driver’s licenses and even a paycheck stub. They are connected to “Indigo Joe’s” restaurant which is no longer in business. […] Read more on MyFoxAL
Ru: More than 1.6 million Mobile TeleSystems phone subscribers learn their details leaked online
Nathan Toohey and Alina Lobzina report: The Vedomosti newspaper has reported that more than 1 million of mobile provider MTS’ users have had their personal data published on the Zhiltsy.net website. A resident of the town of Ufa, Fedor Ponomarev, alerted the newspaper to the massive data leak. The data originated from 2006 and after…
Binned PCs were stuffed with MoD and Sun staffers’ privates
Here we go – again. John Leyden reports: Security researchers found personal records of Sun newspaper and MoD staff on the hard drives of discarded or resold computers. The study, The ghosts from the machines: A history of 10 years of carelessly discarded data, found that both businesses and consumers are getting rid of old PCss without…