From the how-much-can-we-hype-this-before-they-catch-on dept.: Richard Chirgwin reports: Matthew Flannery, once paraded by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) as the “leader” of international hacking collective LulzSec, has pleaded guilty to the five remaining charges against him, in Gosford Local Court. […] The only victim of his work identified in public was the Narrabri Shire Council in the Australian…
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UK: School near Wrexham alerts parents as pupil info lost
Charlie Crossdale reports: Data containing details on children who have attended a primary school over the past decade has been lost. Ysgol Sant Dunawd in Bangor-on-Dee near Wrexham is appealing to parents of pupils, past and present, to get in touch over the potential loss of data, after a backup device containing the Schools’ Information…
Mandatory data breach laws back on Australian agenda
Richard Chirgwin reports: Australia’s on-again, off-again debate about data breach notification laws is on again, courtesy of a report into financial system regulation, at least until the government cans the idea (again). Register readers will recall that a Privacy Alerts bill was proposed by the previous government before the 2013 election, then delayed, re-introduced in March, and abandoned in…
UK: ICO hit by data security breach
Desire Athow reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the entity in charge of making sure British organisations (and the government) keep private data secure, has been hit by a data security breach. The snafu was published in the ICO’s annual report and the body has, according to the Times, been less than amicable when it comes…
UK constable accused of breaching data protection law to access women’s private info
RT reports: UK chief constable, Nick Gargan, is under criminal investigation for allegedly breaking data protection legislation to access personal information of younger females whom he’s accused of inappropriately propositioning. Previously stationed at Avon and Somerset, the former constable once held the position of chief of the National Policing Improvement Agency, and was reportedly tipped to…
UK: Fine for car rental manager who sold customer details to claims company
A former rogue manager at a Merseyside branch of the car rental company Enterprise Rent-A-Car has been prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after unlawfully stealing the records of almost two thousand customers before selling them to a claims management company. Appearing at Wirral Magistrates Court today, 29 year-old Stephen Siddell was prosecuted under…