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Massive card processor breach in Spain affecting Europeans

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Dissent

Back in October, this site reported that “tens of thousands” of Swedish banking customers and “tens of thousands” of Finnish banking customers had been affected by a breach in Spain that might involve a card payment processor. Today, the BBC reports that: Anyone who used a Visa or Mastercard credit card when in Spain may…

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T-Mobile UK customer data sold

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Dissent

As an update to a report filed earlier today, Marc Chacksfield of TechRadar reports that it is T-Mobile at the heart of the data-selling scandal. The company released a statement: “T-Mobile takes the protection of customer information seriously. When it became apparent that contract renewal information was being passed on to third parties without our…

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UK mobile phone data ‘was sold’ (Update 1)

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Dissent

Staff at one of the UK’s major mobile phone companies sold on millions of records from thousands of customers, the information watchdog says. Christopher Graham told the BBC that brokers had bought the data and sold it on to other phone firms, who called the customers as contracts neared expiry. The suspected trade emerged after…

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UK: Addresses and signatures taken from St Albans council offices

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Dissent

Alex Lewis reports: Four laptops containing the personal details and signatures of more than 14,000 St Albans people have been stolen from the district counil, the Review can reveal. District council officials realised last week that a laptop containing the names, addresses and dates of birth of 14,673 people – everyone who applied for a…

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Cops find laptop with 13,000 BNP members names on it

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Dissent

Tom McTague reports: Blundering BNP bosses lost a laptop with the names of all 13,000 party members. A former employee at the BNP HQ and call centre in Northern Ireland was owed unpaid wages and she claims hard-up bosses gave her the computer in lieu of payment, forgetting that it held the entire membership list….

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UK: Primary Care Trusts breach the Data Protection Act

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Dissent

Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust and Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust have taken remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found them in breach of the Data Protection Act. Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust (PCT) informed the ICO of the theft of two desktop computers containing sensitive personal data relating to…

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