Back in January, I noted that the ICO was preparing to levy a huge fine on Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust after hard drives with patient data were stolen and put up for sale on eBay. We later learned that the thief was an employee of a contractor. The possibility of the fine was revealed by the…
Category: Theft
China continues to root out traders in stolen personal info
BBC reports that Beijing authorities have arrested 160 on charges of stealing personal information and have shut down 13 sites allegedly involved in trading stolen personal information. This is in addition to the 1,700 arrested last month. Read more on BBC.
UK council fined £70,000 following theft of highly sensitive data from employee’s home (updated with response from Council)
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The London Borough of Barnet has been issued with a penalty of £70,000 for losing paper records containing highly sensitive and confidential information, including the names, addresses, dates of birth and details of the sexual activities of 15 vulnerable children or young people. The loss occurred when a social worker took the paper records…
Rubio’s Warns Shareholders And Workers Compensation Claimants That Their Data Were Stolen From Auditor’s Car
If you follow me on Twitter (@pogowasright) or follow @datalossdb, you’ll know that over the past few months, I’ve started just sending some items directly into the database without reporting them on this blog. A few nights ago, I added a bunch to the database – some of which I tweeted – after discovering that…
Case Western Reserve notifies 600 alumni of data breach involving Social Security numbers
Earlier today, a breach report was submitted to DataLossDB.org involving Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. The April 4th notice, submitted by one of those affected, indicated that 600 people had names and Social Security numbers on two laptops that had been stolen. Although the university is offering affected individuals free identity theft protection services,…
Follow-up: Staff won’t face discipline after UVic private data stolen
The president of the University of Victoria says nobody will lose their job after administrative staff failed to properly secure and store all employees’ sensitive information prior to it being stolen during a January break-in. Nearly 12,000 employees past and present at UVic had their names, social insurance numbers and banking details taken when an…