From the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), with emphasis added by me: The prison service in Northern Ireland has been warned by the UK data protection regulator after a filing cabinet containing Maze Prison records was unwittingly sold at auction. The incident occurred in 2004 when a cabinet that officials thought was empty was sold at…
Category: Government Sector
File containing asylum seekers’ data downloaded in China, Russia and Egypt
Paul Farrell and Oliver Laughland report: A file containing the personal details of almost 10,000 people in detention was accessed in 16 countries, including China, Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan and Russia, raising further concerns that asylum seekers returned to their countries of origin or their families may be at risk of persecution. In February the immigration…
Another post-Clapper Data Privacy Breach Case dismissed for lack of standing
David M. Brown of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP writes: The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, 133 S. Ct. 1138 (2013), continues to be relied on by federal courts to hold that “mere loss of data” or “increased risk of identity theft” in a data breach case does not constitute…
Latest Debit Card Security Breach Past Us, But Bank Pacific President Says Account Holders Should Monitor Activity
Betsy Brown reports: Guam – The debit and credit card security breach earlier this month was the largest Bank Pacific President Philip Flores says he’s seen on Guam, with more than a thousand accounts believed to be affected island wide. Flores told PNC this wave seems to be past us as most charges were made…
Illinois Attorney General Madigan Indicts Married Couple for Scheme to Access Retirement Funds by Submitting Children’s Fake Death Certificates, Stealing Coworkers IDs
June 11 – Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced charges against former Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) employees for a scheme to steal thousands of dollars from the agency’s deferred compensation program that involved submitting fake death certificates for their living children and stealing the identities of former coworkers. Donella Anderson Watkins, 41, of Lansing, was…
AU: Review blames Immigration for data breach exposing 10,000 detainees
Paul Farrell and Oliver Laughland report: A major data breach that exposed the personal details of almost 10,000 people in detention was caused by Immigration Department failures to check and approve documents for web publication, an independent review has found. The report by management consultants KPMG, which was published on Thursday, reveals that the document containing…