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UK: Banks face more privacy complaints from customers than any other group

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

Gerri Peev: Banks have attracted more customer complaints than any other group over allegations of mishandling sensitive information, the privacy watchdog reveals today. Lenders routinely lost, released or wrongly recorded personal data, the Information Commissioner warned in his annual report which detailed 603 complaints. But the true scale of privacy and data breaches could be…

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AU: Telstra mail bungle breached Privacy Act

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Dissent

Josh Taylor reports: Telstra breached the Privacy Act by sending out tens of thousands of letters to the wrong addresses, according to the Australian Privacy Commissioner, which led to the personal information of about 60,300 Telstra customers being sent to the wrong people. In October last year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the…

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Or we’ll huff and we’ll puff and we’ll blow your house down? Businesses must open their doors to audits, says ICO

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dissent

Businesses should be more willing to undergo data protection audits, the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said today. The warning comes as figures published in the ICO’s annual report show that private companies reported the most data security breaches of any sector in 2010/11. A data security breach is an incident that results in the loss,…

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Papers left on train result in undertaking for U.K. barrister

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dissent

Another undertaking in the U.K. quietly posted to the ICO’s web site without fanfare, relates to the loss of documents by a barrister, Raisa Saley. The facts of the case, as summarized in the undertaking: The Information Commissioner (the ‘Commissioner’) was informed by the data controller that she had lost a bundle of court papers…

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Report: M’sia group hacked S’pore NParks site

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Dissent

Tyler Thia provides the update to a previously reported breach: The Malaysian hacking group H3x4 Crew has been identified as the ones responsible for breaching Singapore’s National Parks Board (NParks) Web site two weeks ago, according to a report. According to a report Tuesday by local daily The Straits Times, Malaysian employees from business consultancy…

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Database of Pakistani web site users exposed by hackers

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Dissent

A Pakistani web site, urdugalaxy.com, has reportedly been breached, according to a data dump posted on Pastebin. The database, which has  not been confirmed by the web site as theirs, contains data on registered site users’ first and last names, city,  country,  cellphone number,  profession, email address, date of birth, password (in plaintext), and ID (although…

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