Terry Gangcuangco reports: Three former Allianz Insurance employees and the two brothers who approached them to leak over 700 pieces of confidential customer data have been sentenced for bribery offences. According to the City of London Police, the three were paid more than £7,000 for the leaked information, which was then passed to claims management…
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Allstate sues Ameriprise for allegedly stealing client information
Bruce Kelly reports: Allstate Insurance Co. is suing Ameriprise Financial in a spat alleging Ameriprise is stealing Allstate’s confidential information by recruiting the giant insurance company’s salespeople, known as “exclusive financial specialists.” Ameriprise is allegedly encouraging the Allstate sales agents to create contact lists from customer information, use flash drives and portable electronic devices to…
IT staffers may have compromised sensitive data to foreign intelligence
Paul Sperry reports: Federal authorities are investigating whether sensitive data was stolen from congressional offices by several Pakistani-American tech staffers and sold to Pakistani or Russian intelligence, knowledgeable sources say. What started out 16 months ago as a scandal involving the alleged theft of computer equipment from Congress has turned into a national-security investigation involving…
AU: Perth woman wants PathWest employee ‘sacked’ for revealing records
David Allan-Petale reports: A Perth woman is calling for a female PathWest employee to be “summarily dismissed” after revealing she released confidential medical test results to a man they had both been in a relationship with. The woman, calling herself Suzanne to protect her identity, spoke to 6PR’s Gareth Parker on Tuesday and said around eighteen months…
Sg: Ex-financial adviser fined for data breach
K.C. Vijayan reports: A former financial consultant was fined $1,000 for breaching data protection laws by disposing of clients’ insurance policy-related documents in a rubbish bin in a residential estate. The Commissioner for Data Protection had launched a probe after receiving a complaint on Oct 10 last year that Prudential folders were recovered from a…
UK: Hospital staff sacked for prying on patients’ medical records in Suffolk and Colchester hospitals
Tom Bristow reports: Hospital staff have been dismissed and suspended for looking up patients’ confidential medical information. They are among hundreds of data protection breaches reported by the NHS in Suffolk and North Essex in the last two years. No harm was done in the majority of cases but the most common serious breaches involved…