A USB stick with sensitive information about 1200 clients of a life insurance company – including personal bank account details – has been stolen from an employee’s car. Fidelity Life chief executive Milton Jennings said the stick had been in an employee’s satchel which he left in his car as he attended a meeting at…
Category: Non-U.S.
From the ICO today…
The Information Commissioner’s Office seems to be providing more information these days on its undertakings and monetary penalties. Not only are they providing more details of the breaches themselves, they’re also publicly disclosing their follow-ups on undertakings. Today they posted: A follow up has been completed to provide an assurance that The Health and Care Professions…
AU: GPS breach sees Aurora Energy workers ready to strike over security fears
Jennifer Crawley reports: Aurora workers are ready to walk off the job today after sensitive employee and customer details were leaked following a security breach of the GPS monitoring system in employee cars. Safety meetings will be held in 16 depots around the State this morning where 400 workers will vote on industrial action. SmarTrak…
UK: North East Lincolnshire Council hit with £80,000 penalty after breach involving special needs children’s information
A monetary penalty notice has been served by the Information Commissioner’s Office on North East Lincolnshire Council after the loss of an unencrypted USB drive containing personal and sensitive personal data relating to 286 special needs children. From the notice announcing the penalty: On 1 July 2011 an unencrypted USB memory stick containing personal and…
Online security breach at SAH disgruntles many job seekers
Darren Taylor reports: A SooToday.com reader has informed us that he has been the target of unsolicited emails, texts and telemarketing calls, and claims this is the result of a mishap involving the Sault Area Hospital (SAH) website’s online job application system. The reader was notified by SAH in a letter dated October 24, 2013…
Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data publishes reports on two investigation into data security at the Hong Kong Police Department
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data in Hong Kong has released two reports on investigations involving possible violations of the Data Protection Ordinance. Both reports involve the Hong Kong Police Department. The first investigation involved the leakage of an HKPD document containing personally identifiable information via Foxy (a file-sharing program). Two instances…