Grant Bryant reports: A spate of credit card scams has hit Queenstown. The biggest scam was centred at the Man St parking building, but it was not the only scam to breach cardholder security in the resort this week. People who had used their credit cards for payments were then later phoned by their card…
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AIB tells tribunal employee dismissed for accessing accounts
Genevieve Carbery reports: Unauthorised access to the bank accounts of 13 employees and three customers by a former Allied Irish Banks worker was “absolutely not” acceptable, a senior AIB manager said yesterday. Former AIB Capital Markets employee Brian Purcell (38), from Dublin, was dismissed in April 2009 after the bank discovered he had accessed the…
Scottish ministers told to “get a grip” on data security
Ben Borland of the Express reports on previously undisclosed breaches involving PII and/or PHI, but I note that BBC provides slightly different coverage. I’ve indicated the BBC’s statements in italics, below. More than 200 electronic items were stolen or lost in the first six months of the year, including PCs, laptops, phones and Blackberries. The…
NZ: University warns students on hacking
Jared Savage reports: University students have been warned to watch out for anyone trying to steal their identity after a computer server holding personal information was hacked. An email sent this week by Stephen Whiteside, at the University of Auckland, said unauthorised parties had accessed a single server holding information such as name, date of…
U.K. detective fined £4,000 for disclosing police data
A North Wales police detective has been fined £4,000 and ordered to pay £1,000 costs after disclosing police information to a suspected criminal. Vaughan Roberts, from Rhos on Sea, Conwy, accessed information about a friend on the police computer, Caernarfon Crown Court heard. Roberts, who was convicted of two offences earlier this month, had accepted…
Info privacy still lags in India: Deloitte
Though Indian organisations have gradually started to realise the importance of data privacy and security focus on employees and other internal security, information privacy is lagging behind in India, according to a survey by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India. Almost half of the Indians experienced at least one internal security breach during the past one year…