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London moves to buy stolen bank data

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Dissent

Vanessa Houlder reports: Britain has approached Germany to buy data stolen from a Swiss bank in an effort to discover details of accounts hidden in the country by potential UK tax evaders. […] A number of German politicians, as well as the Swiss government, have criticised Berlin’s decision to purchase the stolen data. Although the…

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Swiss Data Affair Could Pay Off Handsomely for Germany

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Dissent

The extent of tax evasion by a number of German citizens with Swiss bank accounts appears to be far wider than originally thought. As the German government prepares to fork out a considerable sum for a CD with information about Germans suspected of dodging taxes, a newspaper reports that tax authorities could recover up to…

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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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