Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust has pledged to improve data security after it informed the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of a data breach involving the loss or theft of three unencrypted USB sticks containing sensitive patient information. Each of the devices contained the full treatment and full diagnosis history relating to a number…
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Stolen laptops biggest danger as extent of UK data losses revealed
Karl Flinders reports: UK CIOs reported 356 data loss incidents last year, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by a software supplier has revealed. The FOI request to the information commissioner’s office by Software AG revealed that within the 356 reported incidents 71 memory sticks and CDs were lost, 127 devices including laptops were stolen…
UPDATE: Hackers target Guardian jobs site
Jack Schofield of the Guardian provides more detail on a breach previously reported here. The Guardian has emailed “up to half a million” users of its UK-based Jobs website to tell them that some of their personal data may have been compromised by “a sophisticated and deliberate hack” on Friday night. A Guardian spokesperson said…
AU: Banks send customers’ personal details overseas
Steve Lewis reports: Angry customers are urging the Federal Government to stop the big banks from sending their personal details to offshore processing centres. A national poll has found 83 per cent want the banks to seek written permission from their customers before sending confidential data to overseas. At least two of the major four…
BNP leader ‘paid for UKIP member list’
Daniel Foggo and Jon Ungoed-Thomas report: Nick Griffin is to be investigated by the privacy watchdog after the BNP [British National Party] leader was accused of paying for a database containing the names and addresses of thousands of members of a rival party. The database, which belonged to the UK Independence party and contained the…
Guardian Jobs website hacked
James Glick writes: The UK jobs website, Guardian Jobs, was hacked last night leaving all users data exposed. The Metropolitan Police are investigating and for anyone that has used the service, they’ve circulated advise (sic) in an email sent round to users by the Guardian this evening. It’s not clear from the email whether this…