An undertaking has been signed by Manpower UK Ltd following a breach of the Data Protection Act where a spreadsheet containing 400 people’s personal details was accidentally emailed to 60 employees. Although no date is given for the breach, the undertaking indicates: The Information Commissioner (the ‘Commissioner’) was provided with a report indicating that one…
Category: Non-U.S.
Aussie regulator warns online traders after account breaches
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (Asic) is urging the country’s online traders to “urgently review” their account security after a wave of hacks. The watchdog says that during its regular surveillance it has “become aware of several stockbroking account intrusions involving unauthorised access and trading”. Read more on Finextra.
Ca: UVic had policies in place to secure confidential data
Kyle Slavin reports: Stolen information affecting the bank accounts of thousands of people would never have ended up in the hands of thieves if an existing policy was followed at the University of Victoria. Before assigning blame, the school wants to wait for two reviews looking into whether an employee failed to follow policy by…
Ca: Edmonton public schools blasted over memory stick loss
CBC News reports: Edmonton Public School District did not follow its own policy in the loss of memory stick containing personal information of more than 7,500 employees, says the Alberta privacy commissioner. An investigation by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner found information on the USB memory stick was no protected by a…
UK: SDT suspends ACS:Law founder for two years
James Swift reports: ACS:Law founder Andrew Crossley has been suspended from practising for two years and ordered to pay £76,326.55 in costs at a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) hearing yesterday (16 January). Crossley, who is bankrupt and represented himself, admitted six charges levied at him by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) as a result of…
Facebook denies that “Hannibal” has hacked Arabs’ Facebook accounts
In a series of posts on Pastebin, a hacker who calls himself “Hannibal” (for Hannibal Lecter), has dumped thousands of e-mail addresses and plain-text passwords that he claims are from Arabs’ Facebook accounts. Yesterday, he posted 20,000. Today, he posted 30,000 more. I contacted Facebook for a statement on the allegations that they have been hacked….