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Meanwhile, back in the UK…

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Dissent

Courier TNT has seemingly done it again. Documents with personal information on 27 people sent by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were misdelivered to another party. Read more on The Telegraph & Argus. If you don’t recognize TNT’s name, they were involved in other cases involving missing discs sent by government agencies. In…

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Rogue app ruins Facebook’s weekend

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Dissent

Social networks Facebook and MySpace were dealing with new security issues on Friday that could compromise personal information and communications from friends. […] One of the problems is that Facebook allows anybody to write an application, and third-party applications are not vetted before they are made available to the public. So, even as Facebook stamps…

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OK: City loses disk of account info

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Dissent

Keith Purtell  reports: Officials at the city of Muskogee recently discovered that a computer “zip” disk containing personal information has been in public circulation since 2000. The citizen who found the disk noticed the official city label and returned it. Late Friday afternoon, the city issued a press release saying they had discovered a “possible…

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UK: Health records of Brown and Salmond ‘hacked’

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Dissent

David Leask reports: The health records of Gordon Brown and Alex Salmond were allegedly hacked into, a newspaper claimed last night. The Prime Minister and First Minister are among several high-profile Scots whose confidential files were allegedly accessed without their permission, according to the report. The two leaders’ medical details are on a single database…

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UHW Trustees Working to Address Security Breach (update 1)

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Dissent

Statement of Dave Regan, Trustee of United Healthcare Workers West (UHW), regarding the recent disclosure of a security breach at UHW in July 2007 of 29,500 workers, resulting in credit and identity theft problems for 155 employees of Kaiser Permanente: Last month, UHW was placed in trusteeship after an outside hearing officer confirmed a number…

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UT: Files of personal information discovered by dumpster

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Dissent

Sam Penrod reports: Personal information including bank account and social security numbers was free for anyone to steal near the dumpster of a Draper real estate office Friday. North Star Realty says they were thrown out by accident. Read more on KSL

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