A breach that was reported on this blog last July has resulted in a fine and an undertaking for the Lancashire constabulary. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served a monetary penalty of £70,000 to Lancashire Constabulary after papers containing sensitive information about a 15 year old girl were found on a street in Blackpool. This is…
Category: Non-U.S.
NZ: Privacy breach on 9000 ACC claims (updated)
Phil Kitchin reports on a breach involving sensitive personal information in New Zealand: Private details of more than 9000 ACC claims – some featuring well-known people – have been emailed to a person who should not have received them, in what is being described as one of the worst privacy breaches in New Zealand history….
Europe’s ‘youngest app designer’ expelled from school for hacking its IT system
ANI reports: A “computer whizzkid”, who was crowned Europe’s youngest application designer, has been expelled for hacking into his school’s computer system. Aaron Bond, 14, was expelled from King Edward VI College in Totnes, Devon for trying to access confidential information about staff and students and even the vice-principal’s financial information. He managed to access…
Theft of location info: Revision of law necessary to protect privacy
From an editorial in The Korea Times: Subcontractors of two mobile carriers sold location information of 200,000 customers. The theft shows a deep hole in the protection of location information, and is a grave infringement of the privacy of subscribers. Police arrested engineers working for SK Telecom and KT for stealing and selling location information,…
A horrific privacy breach averted, but why did Anonymous remain silent? (UPDATED)
I couldn’t fall asleep last night. It’s not often that a data breach worries me, but what I read online had concerned me. According to a hacker calling himself @PabloEscobarSec, he had hacked the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), and intended to leak the names of all of the women who had used the service….
Scottish charity signs ICO undertaking following personal data theft
A Scottish charity – based in Glasgow – breached the Data Protection Act after two unencrypted memory sticks and papers containing the personal details of up to 101 individuals were stolen from an employee’s home. The information included peoples’ names, addresses and dates of birth, as well as a limited amount of data relating to…