Simon Murphy reports: Personal details of more than 16,000 residents were lost when a council’s computer memory stick went missing. A series of data protection blunders by West Sussex County Council since 2008 have left the personal information of children and adults at risk. Children’s case material, court records, and social care reports were among 60 breaches,…
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UK: Security helpline gets 174 calls from worried reservists
Another data breach that has the potential to put people in physical jeopardy: More than 170 former police officers have contacted an emergency help service set up after an administrative error potentially compromised their security, the Assembly has been told. Some of those ex-members of the RUC’s [Royal Ulster Constabulary] Part-Time Reserve may be considered…
Samsung Card latest in line of data leaks
Kim Ji-hyun reports that criticism of Samsung Card is starting to pile up following its recent breach disclosure following an insider data leak: Samsung Card, one of the nation’s leading credit card companies, is under fire for trying to downplay the leak of clients’ personal information as concerns mount over the frequent exposure of such data…
UK: Walsall residents’ details dumped in skip
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Walsall Council breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally dumping hundreds of local residents’ postal vote statements in a skip, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The statements – which were disposed of in March 2011 by an external contractor on the council’s behalf – included people’s names, addresses,…
Breaches have consequences: Watchdog penalizes Hyundai Capital after data leak
A follow-up to the Hyundai Capital breach first disclosed in April. At the time, Hyundai reported that approximately 420,000 of its 1.8 million customers had their names, resident registration numbers, mobile phone numbers and email addresses compromised by hackers. Now Yonhap News reports: South Korea’s financial watchdog on Thursday decided to issue an institutional warning…
Security Breach at MyJob.ie
Brian Honan writes: Tonight I got an email from the online recruit arm of Bond Personnel, MyJob.ie, to inform me they recently suffered a security breach and were sending me a precautionary email to change my password. While there are no details as to what information the attackers accessed or how they manage to breach MyJob.ie’s security,…