From the ICO’s enforcement listings: A former support clerk working for Transport for London has been prosecuted at Westminster Magistrates Court for unlawfully accessing the oyster card records of five individuals who were family members and neighbours. Bernard Fernandes was fined £240, ordered to pay a victims surcharge of £20 and £618 prosecution costs. via…
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Breaking up is hard to do: Law firms clash over laptops taken by departing lawyers
Debra Cassens Weiss reports: A battle over laptops taken by lawyers to a new law firm failed to reach a settlement last week during a three-hour session before a magistrate judge. The suit by Pennsylvania insurance boutique Nelson Brown Hamilton & Krekstein initially sought the return of laptops taken by 14 departing lawyers to Lewis,…
UK: Data loss at Portland school sparks inquiries
The Dorset Echo reports: An investigation is underway after a confidential school document wasn’t properly disposed off at a prison. The Young Offender Institution (YOI) on Portland had been providing the Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy (IPACA) with a confidential waste disposal service. A letter was sent to parents of pupils last week informing them that a document hadn’t been…
CT: Probation for Coast Guard Tech Who Stole Explicit Photos
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Ari Mason reports: A former Coast Guard computer technician has been sentenced to three years of probation for stealing personal information, including account names, passwords and sexually explicit photos and videos, from hundreds of computers brought to him for repair. Larry Mathews, 34, of Pawcatuck,…
The Daily Mail did what U.S. media didn’t do: FOI the U.S. Education Department for Insider Breaches
From the good-for-them dept.: The Daily Mail in the U.K. filed a Freedom of Information request with the U.S. Education Department and obtained over 100 pages of responsive documents to their request for records relating to employee misuse of department computers. They have made the entire file available on their site. Note that this is…
OR: Leak of Kitzhaber’s emails, state audit intertwined
Peter Wong and Hillary Borrud report: The leak of former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s emails occurred at a time when state auditors were reviewing security controls at the state data center where the emails are stored. The routine audit, which is ongoing, was already underway when the leak occurred and it is unrelated to the criminal…