Ian Bruce reports: The Ministry of Defence admitted yesterday that 217 of its laptops, 47 desk-top computers, 80 hard drives and 96 memory sticks were lost or stolen during 2008, despite a high-profile security crackdown launched last summer. The latest figures mean more than 1640 of the department’s computers and other information devices have gone…
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UK: Private Info Missing On Lost Disk
A good argument can be made not to count this as a breach, but the loss reminds us of the need to encrypt… A computer disk containing the details of 2,000 members of the British Council has been lost, it has been revealed. The details reportedly include names, national insurance numbers, salary and bank account…
CA: Credit card fraud hits Glenn County departments
One of the many problems with large incidents like the Heartland Payment Systems breach is that you wonder whether every bank or CU breach being reported is linked…. Barbara Arrigoni reports: A bank under contract with Glenn County has alerted officials of allegedly fraudulent charges to county credit cards. As of late Friday, the Finance…
Men Plead Guilty In Metro Election Commission Laptop Theft
Robert Osbourne, Randall Cheek and Brent Rucker pled guilty today to the Christmas Eve 2007 theft of a laptop computer from Metro Election Commission. The laptop contained personal information on every registered voter in Davidson County. Osbourne was sentenced to three years in prison, while the other two men were sentenced to two years’ probation….
UK: Home Office guilty of data breach
The Home Office broke data protection laws when a contractor lost a memory stick with information on thousands of prisoners, a watchdog has ruled. The Information Commissioner’s Office said the Home Office must also sign a formal undertaking to improve its procedures for protecting data. A PA Consulting employee left the stick in an unlocked…
WV: Local health department warns 11,000 people of possible ID theft
Eric Eyre reports: The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is sending 11,000 letters to people who received flu shots from the agency since October, warning them that their personal information may have been stolen by a former department temporary worker. Jameelah Jossiah, 24, a former flu clinic billing clerk, was charged with computer fraud after allegedly making…