If you’re going to have a data gaffe, try to avoid having a reporter be the recipient…. Chris Williams of The Register reports: Police face accusations of incompetence after accidentally emailing a file detailing the results of thousands of criminal records checks to a Register journalist. The author of the email at Gwent Police is…
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(follow-up) St Albans laptop theft suspect released
Alex Lewis reports: The man arrested for stealing a laptop computer containing the addresses of thousands of people in St Albans has been released by police without charge. The 35-year-old Stevenage man, employed by a contractor providing computer services to the authority, was arrested in October after it emerged that a computer with the personal…
First Annual French Ponemon Study Shows the High Cost of Data Breaches for French Organizations
Privacy and information management research firm Ponemon Institute, together with PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced the results of the first annual study into the costs incurred by French organisations after experiencing a data breach. The “2009 Annual Study: French Cost of a Data Breach” report, compiled by the Ponemon…
Confidential information about students left exposed in Education Ministry hallway
Or Kashti reports: Sensitive personal information about students, including psychological diagnoses and school evaluations, is being stored at an unsupervised location in a corridor of an Education Ministry building in Jerusalem. Any visitor who gets through the building’s initial security inspection, if he were so inclined, could look through the documents and even take them….
79,000 clients identified from stolen HSBC data: prosecutor
Some 79,000 customers have been identified from data stolen from a Swiss unit of HSBC bank, a French prosecutor said Tuesday, citing a far higher number than previously made public. The chief executive of HSBC Private Bank (Switzerland) said last month that details on 24,000 bank customers may have been leaked in the theft three…
Data stolen from 95,000 credit card customers
Kim Mi-ju reports: A single information trafficker managed to steal the personal data of more than 95,000 Korean credit card users – and sell it to thieves who created cloned credit cards, police said Sunday. Police said a Romanian used the Internet to install spyware in point-of-sale systems at 36 large discount stores, restaurants and…