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Ca: Mountie docked pay for snooping in database [repost]

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Dissent

[repost] Gary Dimmock reports: A disgraced Mountie has been docked eight days pay after an internal investigation revealed the constable had made numerous unauthorized checks on the force’s national crime data bank and shared some of the information with his wife, an associate and former business partner of a Hells Angel. Const. Todd Glasman became…

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UK: Police officers disciplined over private snooping [repost]

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Dissent

[repost] More than 50 police officers in the West Midlands have been disciplined for using police computer systems to check up on people for personal reasons. Some officers have been sacked, fined, or handed written warnings, and others have been reduced in rank after being caught obtaining information for private use between 2005 and 2010,…

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SelfCatering.ie hack revealed in report on Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner [repost]

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Dissent

[repost] One of the case studies in the 2010 annual report of the Data Protection Commissioner discussed a breach that I had not seen before: Case study 14: Hacking attack on SelfCatering.ie website A bank made a data security breach notification to my Office in 2009 in relation to the credit cards of 1200 customers…

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Honda Data Breach Triggers Lawsuit [repost]

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Dissent

[repost] Mathew J. Schwartz reports: … As with the Sony breach, lawyers for Honda customers filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of affected customers, seeking 200 million Canadian dollars ($206 million). The claim says that the breach exposed customers to “theft of their identity, theft from their bank accounts, and theft from their debit…

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South Africa: DMASA “do not call” database ‘leaked’ [repost]

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Dissent

[repost] Nicola Mawson reports: Around 39 000 South Africans who signed up on the Direct Marketing Association of SA’s (DMASA’s) “do not contact” database are at risk of identity theft, because the list has been leaked to companies that aren’t DMA members. The database contains sensitive information such as contact details, addresses and identity numbers….

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In: Two laptops containing UID data stolen from Hadapsar school [repost]

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Dissent

[repost] Unidentified persons broke into a school hall in Hadapsar and decamped with two laptops, two web cameras and a pen drive in the early hours of Saturday. Investigations have revealed that the laptops contained the data of around 150 persons collected as part of the Central government’s Aadhaar (UID) project. A complaint has been…

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