From the ICO, another large penalty: Telford and Wrekin Council has been issued with a penalty of £90,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), following a breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) involving the disclosure of confidential and sensitive personal data relating to four vulnerable children. The fine was issued following two similar data…
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Publisher of Germany’s Donald Duck/Mickey Mouse comics hacked
SAPA reports: The publishing house that issues Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse comic books in Germany alerted fans on Tuesday that its website had been hacked and data on thousands of users stolen, reported German media. “Unfortunately we have to tell you that, as near as we can tell, a hacker attack Monday meant that…
NHS Trust fined £325,000 following data breach; Trust “frankly surprised” at fine and intends to appeal
Back in January, I noted that the ICO was preparing to levy a huge fine on Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust after hard drives with patient data were stolen and put up for sale on eBay. We later learned that the thief was an employee of a contractor. The possibility of the fine was revealed by the…
TalkTalk subsidiary’s customer data placed on the web in IIS whoopsie (updated with response from TalkTalk)
Bill Ray reports: Updated Greystone Telecom, adopted child of TalkTalk and provider of telecommunications to the business community, is unwittingly sharing customer and contract details with the world: but TalkTalk doesn’t care. The details include customer and contract prices, copies of sales orders and spreadsheets showing how things are going at the subsidiary which TalkTalk…
Montreal homicide detective guilty of passing data from CRPQ database to criminals
Sue Montgomery reports on another insider breach: A Montreal homicide detective was found guilty Friday of using the police database to glean personal information and pass it on to criminals. Mario Lambert, 44, was arrested in September 2009 after the Montreal police internal affairs department discovered someone had used the computer between December 2008 and…
SK Communications to appeal data breach ruling awarding damages to consumer
Kim Yoo-chul reports: SK Communications, operator of the immensely-popular Cyworld (www.cyworld.com) social network website, is challenging a damage compensation awarded to one of its customers who sued the company over its lax protection of private data. She is among many users of Cyworld and Nate (www.nate.com) , another SK Communications service, who have pursued legal…