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IE: Breach notification guidance and code available online

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Dissent

The Breach Notification Guidance and Data Security Breach Code of Practice have been posted to the web site of the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland.

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Houston Computer Administrator Sentenced to 12 Months in Prison for Hacking Former Employer’s Computer Network

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Dissent

A former senior database administrator for GEXA Energy in Houston was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for hacking into his former employer’s computer network. Steven Jinwoo Kim, 40, of Houston pleaded guilty on Nov. 16, 2009, to one count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly causing damage. Kim was…

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18 arrested as credit card cloning gang broken up in Madrid

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Dissent

A group of 18 men and women from seven countries have been arrested in Madrid by the National Police in connection with a credit card cloning scam. […] Police say the gang had the contacts and the infrastructure to, in less than six hours, obtain the bank details of the stolen card owners and use…

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AU: Online ID fraud losses explode to $1.3bn a year

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Dissent

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

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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UK: Council will not face censure for Data Protection error

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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