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Scottish council fined £250k after losing staff pension records

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Dissent

We had been told a big fine was coming, but now it’s here.  PublicService.co.uk reports: Scottish Borders Council has been hit with a major fine after pension records, bank details and salary information on hundreds of employees were dumped in recycle bins, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed. The watchdog, which can fine up…

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Hacker suspected of stealing scores of court documents claims no hacking required to access files

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Dissent

Eli Senyor and Maor Buchnik report: The police have arrested Moshe Halevi, 40, from Acre, for allegedly hacking into one of the Israeli courts’ databases and accessing thousands of case files, some of which contain classified information. Two additional suspects were arrested as well. One of the suspects, Attorney Boaz Guttman, is a former high-ranking…

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Emobile, Meteor plead guilty to data legislation breaches

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Dissent

RTÉ reports: Two telecoms companies have pleaded guilty to multiple breaches of data protection legislation at the Dublin District Court and have been ordered to pay a total of €30,000 to two charities. The charges follow the theft of two unencrypted laptops, containing personal and financial information of customers, from the office of Eircom Ltd…

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Sony says 400 customer names, emails from mobile division leaked in China

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Dissent

Jay Alabaster reports:  Sony said Thursday that hackers accessed about 400 names and email addresses of its mobile customers in China and Taiwan, but that no credit card or banking information was compromised. The company said it became aware of the hack several days after a message was posted on the popular text-sharing website Pastebin by a…

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Scottish councils lose personal data of 10,000

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Dissent

From PublicService.co.uk Hundreds of council data security incidents have led to the loss of data on more than 10,000 people in Scotland over the past five years, figures released under freedom of information laws have revealed. Laptops containing images of children were lost, as was confidential pension information and Blackberry devices containing sensitive emails. These…

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Glasgow City Council slammed for losing 700 computers

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Dissent

Kathleen Hall reports: Glasgow City Council has been slammed for losing more than 700 laptops and PCs in a probe into the body’s security malpractice. The council has lost 256 unencrypted laptops and nearly 450 PCs. It also has a further 541 unencrypted laptops, according to an audit report. The news follows the theft of…

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