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ICO issues a terse statement about ACS:Law

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Dissent

The following press release was issued today by the Information Commissioner’s Office: 29 September 2010 ACS:Law – Data breach A spokesperson for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said: “The ICO takes all breaches of the Data Protection Act very seriously. Any organisation processing personal data must ensure that it is kept safe and secure. This…

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Alabama regulator probing release of Morgan Keegan client data

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Dissent

Roy L. Williams reports: Alabama Securities Commission chief Joe Borg said he will release the findings of an internal investigation into how someone in his office mistakenly gave a Birmingham trial lawyer a computer disk containing confidential information on 18,500 clients of Morgan Keegan & Co. […] Borg’s office mistakenly sent Campbell a disk that…

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University of Florida notifies former students of privacy breach (update)

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Dissent

From the UF web site: University of Florida officials have notified 239 former students that their names, addresses and Social Security numbers were part of a web-accessible archive of computer science class information created in 2003 by a faculty member. Discovered last month, the website was removed immediately from the server, which is housed in…

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When is three years of free credit monitoring still not enough?

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Dissent

How quickly times change. It seems like only a few years ago that we thought it newsworthy that a breached entity would offer a year of free credit monitoring. Then it became newsworthy when they offered two years. Then it became newsworthy when they didn’t offer any free services. Now some retirees in Delaware are…

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TX: $60 for Appliances, Furniture, Social Security Numbers, and Medical Records

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Dissent

Omar Villafranca reports that a winning $60 storage unit auction bid yielded personal and medical information on hundreds of people: But the storage unit also had boxes of sensitive information, including copies of drivers licenses and Social Security cards, credit union reports and financial reports. The letters were addressed to a closed-down nursing facility. The…

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Maine: Student SSN Collection for Tracking On Hold After Data Breach

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dissent

I’ve previously covered the new law in Maine that asks parents to provide their children’s Social Security Numbers so that the state can track the students.  A number of school boards had the wisdom to write to the parents and basically say, “Look, we have to ask you for it, but we encourage you to…

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