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UK: 5,400 medical files stolen in Downpatrick break-in

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Dissent

Some might not consider this a breach because of the encryption: Medical records of 5,400 patients have been stolen from a doctors’ surgery in Downpatrick. The break-in happened at the surgery of Drs Hannah and McGoldrick at Pound Lane over the Christmas period. They were in two computer hard disk drives and several DVDs containing…

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Ca: Brock student information inadvertently leaked to Internet

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Dissent

Brock University officials scrambled this week to secure the private information of more than 17,000 students that was inadvertently put up on the Internet. An error was made on Dec. 22 when a library staff member accidentally uploaded a file containing all student names, student numbers, phone numbers, mailing and email addresses to the publicly…

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Why Germany Is Paying Millions in Ransom For Stolen Bank Data

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Dissent

Tristiana Moore reports: The announcement may have caused some super-rich Germans to tremble in their designer shoes. On Tuesday, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaüble said the government has agreed to buy a computer CD from an anonymous informant that contains the stolen bank details of up to 1,500 people suspected of evading German taxes by…

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NM: Credit theft sours winery experience

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Dissent

Ashley Meeks reports: It certainly wasn’t the wine or the bowtie pasta at St. Clair Winery & Bistro that left a bad taste in Bianca Villani’s mouth. It was the call from Visa, informing her that someone in Maryland was trying to put hundreds of dollars of purchases on her card and the cards of…

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Wigan Council loses the data of 200 disabled residents

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Dissent

A Greater Manchester council has lost details of 200 disabled residents – a year after a previous security blunder. Wigan Council believes a memory stick containing hundreds of confidential details fell out of an employee’s pocket in January…. Town hall chiefs have suspended one member of staff and disciplined another in relation to the latest…

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Nl: University of Utrecht leaks pay slips

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Dissent

Karin Spaink summarizes, in English, a breach reported on security.nl: Randstad HR Solutions, which apparently takes care of the payroll information of the employees of the University of Utrecht, made an error. Employees did not only receive their own January pay slip and yearly overviews, but also slips and overviews intended for others. Randstad HR…

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