The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is reminding organizations that they must make sure that their data protection policies reflect how the modern workforce are using personal devices for work. With a YouGov survey earlier this year showing that 47% of all UK employees now use their smartphone, tablet PC or other portable device for work purposes there…
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GA: Hundreds at risk for ID theft after info was taken from charity
Rachel Stockman reports: Melanie Miller, founded Suddenly Single Parents Inc., a non-profit that helps young parents, said she found all of the agency’s belongings gone after her property management company hired a mold remediation company to cleanup the office on Gresham Road. When she returned from the weekend clean up, the charity’s stuff, including furniture…
Fine Gael website hackers spared jail sentences
Remember the hack of the FineGael web site and data dump back in 2011? RTÉ News has this update: Two students, who hacked Fine Gael’s 2011 election website have been spared jail sentences and left with clean records. Darren Martyn (21) from Cloonbeggin, Claregalway, Galway, and 20-year-old Donnacha O Cearbhaill from The Ring, Birr, Co….
Data Broker Hackers Also Compromised NW3C
In Part II of his latest investigative series, Brian Krebs reports: The same miscreants responsible for breaking into the networks of America’s top consumer and business data brokers appear to have also infiltrated and stolen huge amounts of data from the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), a congressionally-funded non-profit organization that provides training, investigative support and research…
The New Teacher Project notifies employees after laptop stolen from office
A laptop with unencrypted names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and employee ID numbers of current and former employees was stolen from the Brooklyn, New York office of The New Teacher Project the weekend of July 27-28. Notifications to those affected with offers of free credit monitoring are going out about now. Of note,…
UK: Newcastle Citizen’s Advice Bureau data breach concern
BBC reports: An investigation is under way after the Citizen’s Advice Bureau in Newcastle inadvertently released personal information about some of its clients. About 1,300 files containing names, addresses, debt history and criminal records were accidentally made available on the internet. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is looking into the incident and a possible data…