An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by the Local Government Ombudsman. This follows the theft of a bag containing hard copy papers relating to complaints made to the Local Government Ombudsman (the LGO) including some sensitive personal information. The bag, which was stolen from an investigator at a…
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TW: Local bank fined over online security breach
Stacy Wu and Jay Chen report: CTBC Bank, one of Taiwan’s top financial institutions, was fined NT$4 million (US$134,000) Thursday for accidentally leaking the personal information of some 33,000 of its e-banking customers. The error allowed the average Internet user to view confidential data, intended for CTBC Bank staff only, for an undisclosed period of…
Ca: Security breach at Charlottetown ACOA office
Well, this may or may not be a breach, as they’re not saying what’s on the stolen computers. Nigel Armstrong reports: Four laptop computers are missing from a federal government agency in Charlottetown, but no one is commenting on what data might be in them. Staff at the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency at 100 Sydney…
ZA: Joburg billing security breach
Anna Cox reports that more than 1 million customers may have had their information exposed for years by an improperly secured city web site: The City of Joburg has apologised for the inconvenience caused by the security glitch that exposed customer rates and services invoices to fraudsters. The e-statement site had to be shut down…
Investigators say Bow Valley College failed to protect vital info of nearly 200,000
Here’s a breach from almost one year ago that I had missed until this follow-up report. Michael Franklin reports: An investigator into a possible leak of personal information of nearly 200,000 Bow Valley students has found that the institution had indeed failed to protect that information. However, it also says that the school took reasonable…
UK: Foxtons investigates leak of 10,000 customer records
Shona Ghosh reports: Foxtons is investigating whether hackers have leaked the account details of around 10,000 property hunters registered with its site. The estate agent said it had obtained the leaked list and was in the process of checking whether any of the details were genuine. The list was posted anonymously to a popular hacking…