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Ie: Data tape with bill details lost

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Dissent

A data tape containing information from 12,799 electricity bills has been lost. Old billing information, names and addresses are included on the record of payment demands produced on August 10 last year, NIE Energy said. It did not contain any banking details but the electricity company has written to customers. The latest loss follows a…

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UK: Social work records found in second-hand filing cabinet

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Dissent

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Lancashire County Council in breach of the Data Protection Act after social work records containing sensitive personal data relating to several individuals were found in a filing cabinet purchased second-hand by a member of the public. The records were duplicates of documents held in the council’s offices and…

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UK: Government personal data handling has improved, says report

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Dissent

Measures put in place by the Government to better protect individuals’ personal data have been successful but more work is needed, according to the first annual internal report due under the new regime. After a series of embarrassing losses of personal information, including the 2007 loss of discs containing the names, addresses and bank details…

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UK: ContactPoint database suffers ‘serious’ security breaches during trial phase

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Dissent

Andrew Hough and Martin Beckford report: The controversial database containing personal details of all 11 million children in England has suffered at least three security breaches even before its nationwide launch. At least 51,100 people have also demanded to have their personal information hidden from users of ContactPoint amid persistent fears that it is unsafe….

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(follow-up) Kr: Website not responsible for data theft

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Dissent

This is one of the breaches in the top 10 list, where I had previously noted that some sources said 18 million were affected by the hack, while Auction claimed 10.8 million. Whatever the correct number, the online service was found not to be responsible for the breach. Joong Ang Daily Reports: A local court…

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Russian arrested in Kenya with 107 ATM cards

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Dissent

Bernard Momanyi reports from Nairobi: A man who claims to be a Russian was arrested in Nairobi on Thursday after he was found withdrawing money from an automated teller machine (ATM) while in possession of 107 fake bank cards. The man was arrested at the CFC Stanbic branch on Kimathi Street at about noon, police…

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