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HMRC mails wrong private info to 50,000 19,000 taxpayers

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Dissent

John Oates reports on another black eye for HMRC: Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs apologised today for sending out private information to 50,000 tax credit recipients. One taxpayer who contacted The Register said: “We received our tax credit notice with our National Insurance details but on the back were two strangers’ work, childcare and pay…

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Asian firms can do more to protect data

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Dissent

Vivian Yeo reports: Despite greater awareness among businesses in Asia on the need to protect data assets, security breaches seem to be on the increase across the region over the past year. Claudio Scarabello, Verizon Business’ senior global product manager for security product marketing, said in an e-mail interview that data breach incidents appeared “to…

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Jp: 2 held over fraud using computer virus

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Dissent

Two men were arrested on suspicion of using a computer virus to steal personal information and leak it onto the Internet and then defrauding people of money by offering to resecure the data. This is the first arrest in the nation in a case of fraud using a computer virus, and it is only the…

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Ca: Shockingly easy to obtain confidential information

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Dissent

It seems you don’t need “friends in high places” to open doors for you in Saskatchewan. How about a humble data entry clerk? That’s apparently all it took for the Teamsters Union to obtain confidential personal information from the SGI [Saskatchewan Government Insurance] database which it then used to write to the home addresses of…

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In: 2 men held for stealing lakhs via net banking

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Dissent

A Selvaraj reports: The CB-CID’s cyber crime wing on Saturday arrested two Mumbai men for withdrawing Rs 26.55 lakh and Rs 75,510 respectively through fraudulent means from two separate accounts of two Tamil Nadu-based persons using net banking. The arrested, S Vinayak Shivaji Khandare (20) and I Ibrahim Ansari (25), have been brought to Chennai…

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Ie: ‘Reckless’ data breaches should be prosecuted

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Dissent

Steven Carroll reports: Data protection controllers should face sanctions for deliberate or reckless breaches of information protection law, a Government appointed review group has concluded. The obligations of controllers to report security breaches should be set out in a statutory code of practice, which would outline when disclosure of data breaches is mandatory, and failure…

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