Elaine Edwards provides an update on a breach previously covered here and here: A staff member at Bord Gáis who downloaded personal data on more than 93,000 customers to a laptop that was subsequently stolen had specific responsibility for ensuring the protection of data, a report has found. A report on the investigation by the…
Category: Miscellaneous
BNP leader ‘paid for UKIP member list’
Daniel Foggo and Jon Ungoed-Thomas report: Nick Griffin is to be investigated by the privacy watchdog after the BNP [British National Party] leader was accused of paying for a database containing the names and addresses of thousands of members of a rival party. The database, which belonged to the UK Independence party and contained the…
CA: Computers, personal info stolen from church
Betsy Lambert reports: Thieves made off with computers full of personal information last week when they burglarized the Lutheran Church of Prayer on Panorama Drive. Databases with employee and congregational information were in the stolen computers. Since the theft, Lutjens said at least one church employee’s home has been burglarized and another employee’s financial accounts…
Laptop left on plane put pension fund participants at risk
On June 14, when a Verso Paper Corp. employee left a company laptop behind on an airplane, two documents containing names and Social Security Numbers of some former and current participants in the PACE Industry Union-Management Pension Fund were on the laptop. According to a letter (pdf) sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office,…
Carders forum hacked, taken offline
Dan Raywood reports: An alleged underground forum used by hackers to sell logins and financial data has been hacked and taken offline. Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, claimed that the web forum named ‘PakBugs’ was an ‘underground’ forum where people discussed hacking techniques and sold malware code, bank logins and stolen credit card numbers. “But…
Misdirected Spyware Infects Ohio Hospital
Bob McMillan reports: It was a bad idea from the start, but even as bad ideas go, this one went horribly wrong. A a 38-year-old Avon Lake, Ohio, man is set to plead guilty to federal charges after spyware he allegedly meant to install on the computer of a woman he’d had a relationship with…