CBC News reports: A stolen hard drive containing pension data for about 800 former City of Ottawa employees will likely never be retrieved, according to the company that was handling the information. New York-based Towers Watson notified the city of the breach after the hard drive disappeared from an office in the Philippines. Towers Watson…
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Wrexham Council Email Blunder Reveals Personal Data
Rob Taylor reports: Workers at Wrexham Council were left with red faces yesterday after an email blunder saw personal information of residents being wrongly shared. Hundreds of names and personal e-mail addresses were divulged in a mail out of the authority’s annual tenant survey. One Wrexham.com reader described the error as “the council dropping a…
Utah health officials take Data Breach Security Tour on the road
In the wake of its massive data breach, Utah health officials are doing something I don’t recall ever seeing before – they’re taking breach support on the road to reach out to those affected. Kirsten Stewart reports: Health officials are touring the state, looking to provide one-on-one help to the nearly 800,000 Utahns swept up…
NZ: Winz staff fired over privacy breaches
Jared Savage reports: Ten Work and Income staff members have been sacked after two inquiries into breaches of privacy for beneficiaries. The national review of the Ministry of Social Development was launched last December after an investigation into staff at the Manukau branch office. Seven were dismissed for “appalling” breaches of the code of conduct…
AU: Diggers’ personal details released in email
Privacy concerns have been raised after the personal details of thousands of former Australian Defence Force personnel were wrongly sent out in an email. The Defence Community Organisation, which helps families adjust to military life, emailed a database of nearly 2,500 former Defence staff to around 400 other ex-service personnel. The information included names, identification…
Elections Ontario breach update
Two memory sticks with some information on voters registered with Elections Ontario are missing because personnel did not follow protocol. Earliest reports on the breach involving Elections Ontario said that the data were encrypted. Later reports are now saying that the data were NOT encrypted (see official press statement) and that up to 2.4 million may…