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UK: 100,000 members of Civil Service Sports Club are first being told their details were stolen by fraudsters in 2010

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Dissent

Hannah Furness reports: More than 100,000 civil servants and public sector workers have been warned their personal details may have been stolen in a bid to defraud the Government. Members of the Civil Service Sports Club, which has 130,000 members nationwide, have been told their names, addresses, dates of birth and National Insurance numbers have…

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UK: Plymouth City Council fined £60,000 for sending child neglect report to wrong person

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Dissent

I’m guessing that Plymouth City Council isn’t giving thanks today – the Information Commissioner’s Office smacked them with a fine of £60,000 for a data protection breach that occurred in November 2011 when  the details of a child neglect case were sent to the wrong recipient. The breach occurred when two social workers used a shared printer…

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NZ: Immigration staff axed over privacy breaches

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Dissent

Danya Levy reports: Immigration New Zealand has breached the privacy of more than 200 people – most of whom were not informed – in incidents in the past three years that led to 10 staff members losing their jobs. It follows privacy breaches by state agencies including Work and Income, Inland Revenue and ACC, and…

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CN: Police crack ring of personal information thieves

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Dissent

Jiang Yabin reports: Fengxian district police have arrested 11 people suspected of illegally selling personal information, local media reported Wednesday. The case involved about 1 billion pieces of personal information, according to a report in the Shanghai Evening Post. Fengxian district police got onto the case in June while they were investigating an illegal gold…

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Security breach after photos of Prince William shared online

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Dissent

TVNZ reports: Photographs showing a day in the life of Prince William posted online by St James’ s Palace have caused an embarrassing security blunder for the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom. The ministry was yesterday forced to reset the user names and computer passwords of dozens of Royal Air Force staff after…

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Man arrested over theft of 9 million Greek files

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Dissent

CNBC reports: A Greek man has been arrested on suspicion of having stolen 9 million personal data files in what is believed to be the biggest breach of private information the country has ever seen. Police said Tuesday that the 35-year-old, whose name was not released, was found in possession of the data files that…

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