Emily Allen reports: Hundreds of council documents containing personal information were found strewn across the street outside a football ground. Fans on their way to Rochdale’s home match with Wycombe at Spotland found lists of names, addresses and phone numbers and a series of political papers. They included parts of the electoral register, a list…
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Ca: Personal information lost by Elections Alberta
Elections Alberta is apologizing after an enumerator working in Calgary lost a binder containing information on 153 residential addresses. Names, addresses, phone numbers, and even some birth dates of residents living in polling subdivision 45 were contained in the binder. According to a release, Elections Alberta was notified of the binder being lost by an…
Hacking “to protect others” is still hacking, kid
Shaun Tan reports on AsiaOne that a 20-year old student in Singapore decided to “help” those whose email addresses and passwords had been exposed by LulzSec dumping the database from 55 porn sites. Rather than just emailing those individuals to warn them, however, he decided to take matters into his own hands to change their…
AT: AnonAustria releases data from the Austrian Economy Chamber
The Austrian Economy Chamber (WKO) has become the latest victim of a hacking attack. WKO confirmed yesterday evening (Tues) that its webserver was infiltrated by unidentified cyber criminals. More than 6,000 data sets of customers of the chamber were published on the internet. Most of the records contain information about clients of WKO’s real estate…
UK: Two laptop theft incidents result in undertakings
Two organisations have taken action after they breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt personal information on laptops that were later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) breached the Data Protection Act in May 2011 when a laptop – containing sensitive personal data – was…
Betfair security chief departs after data breach exposed
Coincidence or not? The director of security at online betting exchange Betfair has left the company just days after an 18-month old data breach at the company was reported in the press. […] It emerged yesterday that Betfair’s security director Sean Catlett is leaving the company to work with start-up company in the US. Betfair…