NHS employees failed to comply with data security requirements according to an Undertaking, signed by James Barbour, the Chief Executive of NHS Lothian. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found NHS Lothian in breach of the Data Protection Act after an unencrypted memory stick was lost and some paper files were temporarily left in a…
Category: Lost or Missing
Cardiff Council’s laptop thefts revealed
A councillor has criticised Cardiff council after discovering 22 laptops and seven computers have been stolen from civic offices in the last four years. Ramesh Patel said the revelation raised fears about the security of data held on computers in council buildings and the care that was taken with taxpayers’ cash. Read more in Wales…
HSBC fined for personal data loss
Three HSBC firms have been fined more than £3m for failing to adequately protect customers’ confidential details from being lost or stolen. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said customer data had been lost in the post on two occasions. The firms concerned are HSBC Life UK, HSBC Actuaries and Consultants, and HSBC Insurance Brokers. […]…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Melanee R. Fretz, a former bookkeeper at the Kutztown Manor nursing home, was sentenced to nine months of house arrest for stealing the identity of an invalid resident. She was also sentenced to seven years of probation following the house arrest. More. Karina Orduna-Ramirez was charged with four felony counts of…
UK govt departments reveal laptop losses
Ministers have revealed the number of laptops lost or stolen from their departments, with the Department for Work and Pensions mislaying 41 laptops last year. Work and pensions minister Jim Knight said that out of around 9,700 laptops used by his department and its agencies, 41 were lost or stolen in 2008. The figure shows…
More breaches we didn’t read about
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office web site update reveals a number of breaches in the past few months that were never reported in the media. In addition to other news items reported earlier today on this site, here are some more newly revealed breaches: Pension Fund of the U.S.W.U. Local No. 74 reported that in…