Barry Collins reports: High street retailer Argos has compromised its customers’ security by sending their credit-card details – including the vital security code – in unencrypted emails. The company has been including the customer’s full name, address, credit-card number and three-digit CCV security code in order confirmation emails, which are sent once a customer has…
Category: Non-U.S.
CIBC to compensate customers for disclosing data
Joe Schneider reports: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the country’s fifth-biggest bank, agreed to compensate customers whose personal information was sent by mistake to businesses in the U.S. and Quebec. The agreement, approved by a judge in Toronto, settles a class-action, or group, lawsuit filed by the customers over the disclosure of their names, social…
St. George Bank printing gaffe fuels fraud fears (updated)
Jessica Johnston reports: A serious bank blunder has threatened the financial security of 42,000 people after their statements were mailed to strangers. A former bank manager and a business owner are among the Gold Coast victims of a major fraud scare after private details were distributed during a St George Bank printing mistake. The error…
Council hit again by lap top thefts
Mike Keegan reports that Oldham council has suffered yet another data breach: a laptop and laptop bag containing documents with employee information such as names, job titles, and salaries was stolen over the weekend. The theft is thought to have taken place in the authority’s Human Resources Department at the Civic Centre. […] Councillor Lynne…
NL: Data of medical applicants leaked
Karin Spaink provides this English summary of a breach that was reported in Bits of Freedom, March 1, 2010 and that affected an unknown number of people: The data of people who applied for a specialization as general practitioner after having finished their primary medical eduction, leaked via the website Huisartsenopleiding. Appending a first name…
NL: Tax papers of civil servants leaked
Karin Spaink provides this English summary of a breach that was reported in De Telegraaf, Feb. 27, 2010 and that affected hundreds of people: The 2009 tax reports of all civil servants, city council members and assistants of the municipalty Woudenburg/Scherpenzeel were leaked; newspaper De Telegraaf received a paper copy of all papers. The papers…