Deja vu all over again: Indian call centres are selling Britons’ confidential personal data, including credit card information, medical and financial records to criminals and marketing firms for as little as two pence, an undercover investigation has discovered. Two ‘consultants’, claiming to be IT workers at several call centres boasted of possesing 45 different sets…
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NZ: Privacy breach on 9000 ACC claims (updated)
Phil Kitchin reports on a breach involving sensitive personal information in New Zealand: Private details of more than 9000 ACC claims – some featuring well-known people – have been emailed to a person who should not have received them, in what is being described as one of the worst privacy breaches in New Zealand history….
AT&T Says One Of Its Service Providers Hacked Illegally Into Connecticut Customers’ Accounts
George Gombossy reports: AT&T is now admitting that one of its service providers hacked illegally into at least five Connecticut customers’ accounts. The admission, in a letter Thursday to the Connecticut Attorney General’s office, comes after months of denial by AT&T that it could have had anything to do with two security breaches of a…
Stealing kids’ identities: Miami-Dade schools sleaze
Francisco Alvarado reports: Miami-Dade County Public Schools have a security problem — and we’re not talking bad locks on the local elementary school’s front door. Student information has fallen repeatedly into thieving hands, and the latest lapse comes from an especially embarrassing accused perp: Tizrah Ingram-Johnson, daughter of the late black leader and former school…
UK: North cop faces data protection breach charges
A Black Isle cop is facing allegations he breached data protection laws by logging into a police computer system to find details on a colleague who was likely to be a witness against him in a Northern Constabulary misconduct investigation. The trial of Alan Heap (43) – whose address was given as c/o Burnett Road…
DVLA dismisses five people in Wales over data breaches in three years
Alun Jones reports: Five people have been dismissed by the DVLA in Wales in the last three years for breaches of the Data Protection Act. Offences included “unauthorised access of the vehicle record” and “releasing information to a third party”. The Swansea-based agency, which employs about 5,000 staff, said it took data protection “extremely seriously”….