Ouch. Information Age reports: A data breach at Dumfries and Galloway Council was reported just hours after the council announced a new data protection policy. The Scottish local council announced yesterday that it had approved a new data protection policy, having suffered two significant data breaches last year. In one incident, salary information about 9,000…
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Update: Laptop holding PERA data stolen from auditor’s pickup at hotel lot
We should have known or at least guessed. Trip Jennings provides additional background on the Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico breach reported previously on this blog. Parked at a Clovis Comfort Inn & Suites, the 2008 white Ford F350 pickup must have seemed an inviting target. Inside the truck’s cab were two laptop…
UK: Dumfries and Galloway Council makes childminder data apology
BBC reports on yet another council breach: A council has apologised “unreservedly” after details of thousands of childminders were “inadvertently” sent to a number of childcare providers. The information had been provided to Dumfries and Galloway Council by the Care Inspectorate. The incident has been reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office and those affected have…
UK: Council says sorry after vulnerable residents’ details stolen
Max Salsbury reports: A laptop holding the bank details of people receiving winter fuel payments and people in receipt of care grants has been stolen from a council’s offices. Two laptops were stolen when Glasgow City Council’s offices were broken into sometime between 28 and 29 May. Now the Council is to write to the…
ID theft sting nabs state employee
EmpireStateNews reports: An employee of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services is accused of selling personal information to an outside person. Gary Oxendine, 55, of Albany, was arraigned on one count of receiving a reward for official misconduct in the second degree, a felony, on Wednesday evening in Bethlehem Town Court….
City laptop with residents’ data stolen from library
The New Haven Register reports on a laptop theft that occurred on May 23: A laptop used by an Elderly Services Specialist to input data for the Rent Rebate program was stolen recently from the Mitchell Branch Library, but there is no reason to believe anyone has accessed the data stored on the laptop, city…