More than a million customers have had their personal details “lost” after a data mix-up at a loan firm’s Birstall headquarters. The Cattles Group, which owns Welcome Finance loans firm, has written to customers informing them that two back-up storage discs with private information about 1.4 million customers have been misplaced. Marlene Proctor, 31, from…
Category: Lost or Missing
UK: South Central SHA data breaches affect over 1,800 staff
Health Service Journal calls attention to two breaches that occurred in October involving the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) of NHS South of England. According to the December board minutes: The [first] incident occurred in the human resources team in October 2011. The hard copy personnel file was removed from the secure human resources…
Three months after tapes are reported missing, ValueOptions notifies National Elevator Industry subscribers (updated)
I just read a notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that is both thorough in its description of the event and steps taken, but also needlessly increased the risk to those affected. In a letter dated October 28, ValueOptions, Inc. described how a container of tapes containing unencrypted data went missing after being…
UK: Council lost memory stick containing 18,000 residents’ details
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…
Ca: Elections binders lost with voters names, addresses
The lost voter registration binder reported by Elections Alberta was not the only binder lost, it seems. Trish Audette provides the update: Personal information about 453 eligible voters in Edmonton-Strathcona has been lost after an Elections Alberta enumerator misplaced a binder containing the residents’ names and addresses. “She left it on the front porch ……
AdvancePierre Foods sends unencrypted employee 401k data on flash drive that gets lost in the mail
Through their attorneys, AdvancePierre Foods recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a flash drive containing unencrypted personal information of its employees had been lost in the U.S. mail. The October 6 letter indicated that on September 8, the firm had sent the flash drive to its 401k provider, Milliman. The envelope arrived on…