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Residents’ data lost in stolen council laptops

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Dissent

Residents’ personal data held by North Somerset Council has gone missing after laptops were stolen. It remains unknown whether or not the device on which the confidential details were held was protected. The local authority is yet to encrypt all of its mobile electronic equipment. A total of thirteen council laptops have been stolen over…

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DWP does not keep track of CIS security breaches

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Dissent

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that it does not keep a running total of security breaches committed on its sensitive Customer Information System (CIS) database, prompting accusations that it is not taking adequate steps to protect personal data from intruders. […] The DWP said it did not know how many security…

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Two arrested in Alicante for hacking women’s files and stealing hundreds of sexual videos

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Dissent

Agents of the National Police in Alicante have arrested an alleged ‘hacker’ and an accomplice who have on their computers more than 200 email accounts of women and more than 300 file folders with photographs and videos of a sexual nature and intimate pictures of other young people. The two accused have allegedly invaded their…

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I can’t picture this happening here

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Dissent

The Guardian in the UK published this letter: My mother regularly deposits pocket money in my 15-year-old son’s Bradford & Bingley savings account. Recently she paid in a £40 cheque at her local branch and asked for a receipt. She was handed a printed mini-statement showing his latest transactions. She did not feel she had…

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In wake of breach, vehicle repair organization agrees to improve security

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Dissent

Blackburn-based Repair Management Services Ltd (formally MVRA), a trade body that provides advice to businesses involved in motor vehicle repair, has taken remedial steps to improve data security following the theft of an unencrypted laptop containing the personal information of approximately 36,800 individuals. The laptop, which also held details of 1,900 motoring convictions, was stolen…

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London Borough of Sutton will improve security in wake of breaches

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Dissent

London Borough of Sutton has agreed to take action to comply with data security requirements and has signed an Undertaking to assure the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that personal data will be kept securely in future. The ICO has found London Borough of Sutton in breach of the Data Protection Act after several data security…

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