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Category: Lost or Missing

Wigan Council loses the data of 200 disabled residents

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Dissent

A Greater Manchester council has lost details of 200 disabled residents – a year after a previous security blunder. Wigan Council believes a memory stick containing hundreds of confidential details fell out of an employee’s pocket in January…. Town hall chiefs have suspended one member of staff and disciplined another in relation to the latest…

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UK: ATL agrees to improve information security after thousands of union members’ personal details are stolen

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Dissent

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) in breach of the Data Protection Act after a laptop and memory stick were reported lost or stolen, containing the personal details of over 6,000 union members. The laptop was the property of the ATL and contained the personal details of…

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77,000 Alaskans’ information missing; state settles with firm

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Dissent

Ted Land reports: Tens of thousands of Alaskans are trying to find out if their personal information is missing. Attorney General Dan Sullivan announced Thursday there’s been a massive security breach reaching the highest levels of state government. More than 77,000 Alaskans’ personal information is missing. No one knows where it went. […] On that…

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(update) Missing National Archives hard drive contained more data than previously estimated

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Dissent

The National Archives breach involving White House staff and visitors seems to be one of those breaches where after almost a year, estimates of number of people affected are still emerging and increasing. An article on Roll Call indicates that personal information on 250,000 Clinton administration staff and White House visitors sent to the National…

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Ie: Data tape with bill details lost

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Dissent

A data tape containing information from 12,799 electricity bills has been lost. Old billing information, names and addresses are included on the record of payment demands produced on August 10 last year, NIE Energy said. It did not contain any banking details but the electricity company has written to customers. The latest loss follows a…

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UK: ContactPoint database suffers ‘serious’ security breaches during trial phase

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Dissent

Andrew Hough and Martin Beckford report: The controversial database containing personal details of all 11 million children in England has suffered at least three security breaches even before its nationwide launch. At least 51,100 people have also demanded to have their personal information hidden from users of ContactPoint amid persistent fears that it is unsafe….

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