Asher Moses reports: One in 10 Australian internet users have lost money to online identify fraud over the past year with losses totalling $1.286 billion, according to the VeriSign Online Fraud Barometer figures released today. The findings represent a significant increase on the figures reported in June by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which surveyed…
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UK: Data from 13,000 farmers on stolen laptop
Mark Casci reports: An organisation set up to help improve the quality of the UK dairy market has had to apologise after it lost the personal details of thousands of farmers. A laptop computer containing the names, addresses, quota details, transaction reference numbers and telephone numbers of some 13,000 farmers was stolen early last month…
UK: Council will not face censure for Data Protection error
A council which wrongly included national insurance numbers on post will not face action over the blunder. Northumberland County Council has been told by the Information Commissioner that it will not be censured over the mistake. The Journal reported in April how, due to “human error”, the authority failed to remove national insurance numbers from…
AU: Patients’ privacy put under threat
Anna Caldwell reports: The private details of Queensland Health patients are at risk of being lost or stolen and there are inadequate plans to deal with a major security breach. But the troubled department is racing to implement computerised medical records. The Auditor-General’s report into information systems governance and control has identified gaps in protocol…
UK: Laptop with personal data of 24,000 people is stolen
More than 24,000 people in Hull and Leicester have had information about them stolen, it has been revealed. Training company A4e said the data was held on a personal computer of an employee which was stolen in “an opportunistic domestic burglary”. A4e said the laptop, that was taken on 19 June in London, did not…
Ca: Confidential cemetery papers found dumped
Jenni Dunning reports: Residents are fuming after a cardboard box overflowing with personal information, including credit card numbers, was found outside a Hamilton cemetery yesterday. The discarded box [found “near a railway next to piles of broken tree branches and stinky garbage at the back of Hamilton Municipal Cemeteries’ headquarters on York Boulevard”], about the…