A former gambling industry worker who unlawfully obtained and sold personal data relating to over 65,000 online bingo players has been found guilty of committing three offences under section 55 of the Data Protection Act. Marc Ben-Ezra, of Finchley, was given a three year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £1,700 to Cashcade Limited as…
Category: Breach Incidents
Fr: Activists hack ruling party’s phone numbers
Odd… I didn’t come across this one via my usual resources and am having trouble tracking it down, but media are reporting it, so: Hackers have published personal details including phone numbers of senior members of right-wing French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling party, claiming the action on behalf of all the party’s “victims”. The UMP…
Leader in Energy Security Joins Critical Assets Executive Team
Del Mar, CA, November 09, 2011 –(PR.com)– In response to growing demand from the energy sector for more efficient NERC/CIP programs and a single source security team that understands the energy market, Critical Assets, the world’s leading provider of security and compliance services, announced today that Jeff Mills, the former chief energy security strategist for…
Anti-government feeling inspires dump of employees’ usernames and passwords
Oops. Drafted this yesterday, but never posted it. I’m old, I forget… Hex00010 of TeaMp0isoN dumped a bunch of foreign government employees’ usernames, e-mail addresses, and passwords on Pastebin. The passwords for Australian legislators and officials are in clear-text; those for other countries or organizations may be encrypted or decrypted, variously. Checking them out, I…
Three months after tapes are reported missing, ValueOptions notifies National Elevator Industry subscribers (updated)
I just read a notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that is both thorough in its description of the event and steps taken, but also needlessly increased the risk to those affected. In a letter dated October 28, ValueOptions, Inc. described how a container of tapes containing unencrypted data went missing after being…
Fannie Mae notifies 1,100 of a security breach – but it’s a puzzlement
On October 28, Fannie Mae notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security incident involving personal information of over one thousand individuals. In their letter, they explain that in mid-October, they became aware that an employee may have been attempting to sell handwritten copies of the financial information of approximately 1,100 people. The…