Scott Mullins reports: Confidential paperwork about a youngster being monitored by social services went missing after a bungling council worker left his notes on a train. Bromley Council says one of its officers was travelling by train between Orpington and Chislehurst for an appointment but alighted without picking up handwritten paperwork about the family he…
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Wigan Council improves security after details on most school children are stolen
From the UK Information Commissioner’s Office: Wigan Council has agreed to take action to comply with the Data Protection Act after the theft of a laptop computer containing personal information relating to approximately 43,000 children and young people. The laptop included personal details on most children and young people in Wigan’s schools. The information had…
Ex-BNP man fined over names leak
A former member of the British National Party has been fined £200 after admitting publishing the details of some 10,000 party members online. Matthew Single, 37, formerly of Church Lane, Brinsley, Notts, was fined by Nottingham magistrates after admitting disclosing data without consent. The names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of some party supporters…
2 extradited to NY on global ID theft charges
The Associated Press reports that two men from the Czech Republic have been extradited to New York City on charges of running an international multi-million dollar Internet-based credit card theft ring. Prosecutors allege that “the ring is responsible for at least $4 million in fraud, and trafficked in 95,000 stolen credit card numbers between November…
Laptops containing medical details of Birmingham patients stolen
In the U.K.: Laptops containing the private and medical details of more than 7,000 Birmingham NHS patients, including sick children, have been stolen prompting a massive security alert. Surgical firm Trulife used by four hospitals – Birmingham Children’s Hospital, City Hospital, in Winson Green, Sandwell Hospital, in West Bromwich, and Rowley Regis Hospital – has…
Brits ‘revealing credit card PINs’
More than 8 million Britons have revealed their debit and credit card PIN number to a friend or relative in the last 12 months. That is according to a new survey from LV= home insurance, which found that almost a quarter (24%) of these customers had fallen victim to ID fraud. Common reasons for revealing…