Scottish Borders Council has appealed the £250,000 fine imposed by the ICO following a data protection breach in which employees’ information was found unshredded in supermarket recycling bins. Southern Reporter reports that the ICO has until November 2 to respond to the appeal and the decision will be made by a three-judge panel.
Category: Exposure
GA: Sensitive files found in Buckhead dumpster
Ron Nakfoor reports that a citizen alerted 11Alive News to sensitive documents left in dumpster: The documents appeared to be from a local real estate agency and contained tax ID numbers, along with copies of personal checks with bank account numbers on them…. The name on the dumped real estate signs and most of the paperwork is Dorsey…
NZ: Ministry of Justice shuts down kiosks
In the aftermath of the WINZ breach, the NZ government has been reviewing all its systems. In the process, they discovered that the Ministry of Justice kiosks had a similar issue as the MSD Work and Income kiosks. The New Zealand Herald reports: The affected kiosks included three computers at the ministry’s national office, which…
PLS Financial/Payday Loan Store settles government charges of improper disposal of customer records
Via Courthouse News: PLS Financial Services/The Payday Loan Store/PLS Check Cashers, which have more than 300 outlets in 9 states, expose customers to ID theft by dumping personal financial information into Dumpsters, the USA says in Federal Court. The lawsuit was brought at the request of the FTC, and I’ve uploaded the complaint and stipulated…
UK: Housing association email attachment gaffe discloses employees’ sensitive personal information
Nick Duxbury reports: A housing association has launched an internal investigation after it sent sensitive personal information about its employees to hundreds of staff. Network Housing Group accidentally emailed around 300 staff a spreadsheet understood to contain details of employees’ sexuality, ethnicity and disability status. The Information Commissioner’s Office and the housing regulator have been…
Ca: Calgary Board of Education hit by new privacy breach as laptop containing 2,000 report cards stolen
Richard Cuthbertson reports that the Calgary Board of Education has had a second breach this month. I had missed the first one, I think. This latest one happened October 5th after an employee left a laptop containing the report cards of more than 2,000 students in a car. The laptop was stolen. Kindergarten to Grade 9…