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Fear of identity theft after break-in at college

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Dissent

John Walshe reports: Birth certificates and other personal details including bank drafts and cheques from around 20 teacher training applicants have been stolen from a college. The break-in at St Patrick’s College of Education in Drumcondra, Dublin has raised fears among some applicants and their parents about the dangers of identity theft. President of the…

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Police send Reg hack CRB check database

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Dissent

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

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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First Annual French Ponemon Study Shows the High Cost of Data Breaches for French Organizations

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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Confidential information about students left exposed in Education Ministry hallway

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Dissent

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….

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79,000 clients identified from stolen HSBC data: prosecutor

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Dissent

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…

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