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Jefferson County judge issues injunction barring GoDaddy from hosting hacked law enforcement data

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Dissent

Jefferson County, Alabama Sheriff Mike Hale was apparently successful in obtaining an injunction against GoDaddy. As previously reported, GoDaddy has hosted and registered sites that were involved in dumping the personal data of Jefferson County law enforcement employees and their families after hackers went after a number of law enforcement-related web sites. I had thought…

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UK: Vince Cable apologises for disclosing confidential documents

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Dissent

Business Secretary Vince Cable has apologised ”unreservedly” after confidential documents were discovered in bins left outside his constituency office. Unshredded paperwork, including correspondence from ministers and letters which contained personal details of his constituents, were found dumped in transparent recycling bags outside the Liberal Democrat’s Richmond and Twickenham HQ over a nine month period. Read…

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UK: Council lost memory stick containing 18,000 residents’ details

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Dissent

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council breached the Data Protection Act by losing an unencrypted memory stick containing the details of over 18,000 residents, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO has required the council to put changes in place and will check to ensure the improvements have been made. The memory stick – which…

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Ca: Private children’s ministry papers dumped in trash bin

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Dissent

CTV reports: The B.C. government is dealing with another privacy breach after confidential documents from the Ministry of Children and Family Development were found dumped in a garbage bin. The documents were discovered dumped in a green dumpster behind a Victoria apartment building last week, and contain client names, addresses, birth dates and health card…

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HK: Labour Dept probes data loss

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dissent

The Labour Department is investigating the loss of personal data of 56 people who applied for employee compensation. The police and the Privacy Commissioner have been informed. The department said a review had been initiated to prevent a similar occurrence. Labour officers are contacting the affected people to inform them about the incident. The department…

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FL: Ocala Police Officer Arrested In Identity Theft Scheme

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dissent

An Ocala police officer and several other people were arrested in an elaborate identity theft scheme, police said. Investigators said officer Dana Brown collected the personal information of about 149 drivers so that others in the scheme could open 184 bank accounts to cash fraudulent tax return checks. Police said Brown accessed the information in…

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