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Farmers bank account details lost by Rural Payments Agency

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Dissent

Caroline Stocks reports: Thousands of farmers’ bank account details have been lost by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) after the Government body lost two back-up tapes of confidential data belonging to all English farmers. The RPA, which administers the single payment system of EU subsidy to English farmers, for the Department of Environment Food and…

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NHS staff to improve data handling after details of cancer patients go missing

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Dissent

Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust has pledged to improve data security after it informed the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of a data breach involving the loss or theft of three unencrypted USB sticks containing sensitive patient information. Each of the devices contained the full treatment and full diagnosis history relating to a number…

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CalOptima Reports Potential Loss of Patient Claims Information (updated)

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Dissent

From CalOptima’s web site: ORANGE, Calif. (October 23, 2009) – CalOptima has identified the potential loss of past medical claims information for approximately 68,000 of its members that was stored on electronic media devices. CalOptima’s claims scanning vendor sent the electronic media devices to CalOptima through the U.S. Postal service by certified mail. On Tuesday,…

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UPDATE: Zurich data loss affects 641,000

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Dissent

Leo King reports: Insurance giant Zurich has lost the sensitive personal account details of 641,000 customers held on backup tape. The company admitted the tape had been missing for over a year in South Africa, after it was lost en route to a secure storage unit in August 2008. But it has only just noticed…

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Insurer Zurich loses customers’ details

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Dissent

Nick Collins of the Telegraph reports: Insurance giant Zurich has admitted losing the personal details of 51,000 British customers. The group said the backup tape was lost during a routine transfer to a data storage centre in South Africa in August last year. It said it had no evidence that the data had been misused,…

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Personal data for thousands of former adult students go missing

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Dissent

Kipp Hanley reports: Nearly 80,000 former adult education students’ personal information stored on a flash drive was lost in Richmond on Sept. 21 according to a Virginia Department of Education press release issued Wednesday. The information went missing after being given to a representative of Virginia Tech’s Center for Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Programming for…

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