The personal details of around 1,000 children have been snatched by thieves who stole a computer from inside an adventure playground. Burglars broke into Bennetts End Adventure Playground in Hemel Hempstead over the weekend. As well as a computer, £850 was taken from a safe inside the council-run adventure playground’s office. Read more on Hemel…
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Ca: Personal data from mortgage broker found in garbage bin
Miranda Scotland reports: Construction workers found five boxes of files containing personal information in a garbage Tuesday in Edmonton. The files from a mortgage broker contained information such as social insurance numbers, credit card information and mortgage values, said Wayne Wood, spokesman for Alberta’s privacy commissioner which is investigating. There are a lot of people’s…
Two London Borough of Greenwich e-mail breaches involving sensitive information result in undertaking
The London Borough of Greenwich recently signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office following two incidents in which unencrypted personal and sensitive information were disclosed due to: (1) failure to encrypt and (2) sending sensitive information by e-mail to external addresses at all . From the undertaking: The Information Commissioner (the ‘Commissioner’) was provided…
Another Korean data breach – GOMTV.NET reports hacker compromised user information, including passwords
Paul Ducklin reports that Seoul-based streaming media service GOMTV suffered a breach involving usernames and passwords. An email sent to customers on August 14 said: Dear Valued GOMTV.net users: We regretfully inform you that approximately at 2 AM KST, Aug.12th, there has been an attack against our web site, GOMTV.net. We have found that some…
HK: OFTA computer with personal data stolen
The Office of the Telecommunications Authority says a notebook computer belonging to a member of staff, which contains the personal data of more than 500 people, has been stolen. It said information stored in the computer includes personal details of OFTA’s Emergency Response System team and representatives of other government departments. OFTA has apologised to…
S. Korea plans to scrap online real-name system in wake of massive hack
It appears that a massive data breach affecting 35 million South Koreans who use popular portal and social networking sites Nate and Cyworld has served as a wake-up call for the government: The South Korea government will push ahead with plans to scrap the current real-name system for Internet users in the wake of the…