Stewart Room writes: If you’ve been keeping a close eye on developments at the Information Commissioner’s Office, then you will have detected a very clear trend when it comes to regulatory enforcement action. Basically, ICO has abandoned the monetary penalty and other statutory enforcement mechanisms, for “undertakings”. Read more on Stewart Room. I’m glad for…
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UK: Vince Cable apologises for disclosing confidential documents
Business Secretary Vince Cable has apologised ”unreservedly” after confidential documents were discovered in bins left outside his constituency office. Unshredded paperwork, including correspondence from ministers and letters which contained personal details of his constituents, were found dumped in transparent recycling bags outside the Liberal Democrat’s Richmond and Twickenham HQ over a nine month period. Read…
UK: Council lost memory stick containing 18,000 residents’ details
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council breached the Data Protection Act by losing an unencrypted memory stick containing the details of over 18,000 residents, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO has required the council to put changes in place and will check to ensure the improvements have been made. The memory stick – which…
Ca: Private children’s ministry papers dumped in trash bin
CTV reports: The B.C. government is dealing with another privacy breach after confidential documents from the Ministry of Children and Family Development were found dumped in a garbage bin. The documents were discovered dumped in a green dumpster behind a Victoria apartment building last week, and contain client names, addresses, birth dates and health card…
Hi5ads and Bangla TV hacked; user data dumped
Noticed on Pastebin today: Hi5ads.com was reportedly hacked on October 29 via SQL injection by those identifying themselves as “3xp1r3 cyber army.” The data dump includes 5,065 entries from the “mero_classified” database consisting of usernames, clear-text passwords, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and names. In a separate data dump, the group lists 3,149 clear-text passwords and…
IE: Personnel files found dumped in industrial estate
Ralph Riegel reports: Files containing confidential information on private security staff were discovered in a box left unattended in an industrial estate. An investigation by the Data Protection Agency (DPA) is now under way into the discovery of files at Frankfield Industrial Estate in Cork. The files were removed by Cork County Council officials yesterday…