From the ICO: The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) breached the Data Protection Act by failing to keep sensitive information about the welfare of young people secure in two separate incidents, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The first incident happened in September last year when nine case files were mistakenly left in a…
Category: Non-U.S.
School records lost by Canada Post; identity theft feared
It’s not just U.S. school districts that have been suffering breaches. Here’s one from Canada that was reported last week by Luisa D’Amato: Canada Post has lost two rolls of microfilm containing the personal information of more than 2,200 Waterloo Region residents who left or graduated from high school six years ago. The microfilms were being…
Update: Two held in Fine Gael hacking inquiry
Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the Fine Gael website. The party’s new website was hacked into in January and the details of 2,000 subscribers were stolen. Read more on RTÉ. Previous coverage on DataBreaches.net can be found here.
UK: Local councils lose personal details of 160,000 people
David Pegg reports: Local councils have lost data relating to personal details of more than 160,000 people in the last five years, a Bureau investigation can reveal. More than 26,000 individuals have had their personal details lost in the first half of 2011 alone. The losses include personal details of more than 5,000 children. CVs,…
Beijing Court Finds 21 Defendants Guilty of Criminal Privacy Violations
On August 5, 2011, the Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court announced its decision in what is reported to be the largest criminal case to date involving the misuse of personal information in Beijing, China. The Court based its ruling on Article 7 of the Seventh Amendment to the Criminal Law, which applies to three types…
Borlas.net user data hacked and exposed
Seen at The Hacker News: Division Hackers Crew hack the Database of Borlas.net (Free SMS Site) . Hackers leak the usernames, Passwords, emails and phone numbers of 14800 registered users. Leaked database posted on pastenbin… Read more on The Hacker News