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Westmont College professor’s laptop with applicant information stolen from car

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Dissent

These statements strike me as potentially mutually exclusive: “On December 14, 2014, a college laptop was stolen from a professor’s car that was briefly parked at a gas station.” “we take the security of your personal information very seriously” — from a breach notification by Westmont College. Did Westmont College have a policy in place that required…

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UK: Children’s details lost and sent to wrong place by Derby City Council employees

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Dissent

The Derby Telegraph reports: Derby children’s personal details have been lost and posted to the wrong address this year by city council staff. The paper filed under freedom of information and found out more about the Derby City Council‘s breaches over the past 12 months. Incidents included: a lost notepad containing details of cases “review…

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In: Decoder of secret information stolen, security agencies panic

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Dissent

From the where-is-Captain-Midnight-when-you-need-him dept.: Theft of an electronic instrument worth around Rs 3 lakh [$4816.53 – Dissent] from the building of Dang district superintendent of police, Ahwa, has created panic among top national security agencies. Sources in police claim that the stolen device is a decoder of encrypted secret code language used by intelligence agencies to…

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E. K. and Company notifies clients of stolen hard drive with financial information

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Dissent

I haven’t seen one of these “the data can’t be accessed without specialized software” reassurances in quite a while: Mark Riley, Inc. dba E. K. and Company (“E. K. and Company”) is an accounting and payroll processing company. On January 19, 2015, E. K. and Company’s office was broken into and a hard drive was…

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MO: Former Programmer Pleads Guilty to Stealing Software Code from Federal Reserve Bank

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Dissent

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former software programmer for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing software code. Hamid Reza Tahmasebi, 54, of Leawood, Kan., waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. District…

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A breach, a complaint and how the NZ Privacy Commissioner helped

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Dissent

From the job-well-done dept.: New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards, writes: Late last year, one of my senior investigating officers came to me with a file she’d been working on for quite a while. She was convinced the facts supported a finding of an “interference with privacy”, that is, a breach of the privacy principles,…

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