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HSE stolen laptop contains personal financial data

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Dissent

A non-encrypted laptop computer stolen from a Health Service Executive (HSE) office contains sensitive personal financial data on people who have approached community welfare officers seeking assistance. The laptop containing the data was one of 15 computers stolen from HSE offices in Roscommon town at the weekend. […] One of the two non-encrypted laptops contained…

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NZ: Breach confirms TestSafe privacy fears

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Dissent

Jodi Yeats of New Zealand Doctor Online reports: A data breach in Auckland’s controversial regional lab tests repository has confirmed health sector fears about regional databases. A phone call from a patient in late May alerted Auckland regional DHBs to privacy breaches in Auckland’s controversial regional community laboratory results repository, TestSafe, affecting 150 patients. The…

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UK:Patient records stolen – but patients not told

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Dissent

Nick Spoors of Northampton Chronicle reports: The personal information of up to 100 Northampton NHS patients was lost after a community nurse’s motorbike was stolen – but the patients were never told, it has been revealed. According to NHS Northamptonshire board papers released this week, the GP surgery-based nurse was visiting a home in Park…

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Leaked Calgary police document causes worries all around

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Dissent

Stephane Massinon of the Calgary Herald reports: The fact an internal police document that lists FOB Killers gang members was found in a rival gang’s possession drew concern from the province’s top police officer, the privacy commission and gang experts. When police raided a Heritage Pointe house allegedly tied to the FOB gang in December…

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UK: Nightwatchman left tax files centre open and unguarded while he sneaked off for a burger

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Dissent

Stephen Stewart of The Daily Record reports: A hungry security guard left highly sensitive files at risk while he went in search of a McDonald’s. The nightwatchman quit his post at the Customs centre in Dundee and propped open a door so he could get back into the building as he had no keys. […]…

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Amicus Legal Ltd found in breach of the Data Protection Act

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Dissent

From the ICO press release: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Amicus Legal Ltd in breach of the Data Protection Act after reporting a laptop computer containing personal information relating to 100,000 customers was stolen. The laptop, privately owned by a contracted consultant, was not encrypted. According to the Undertaking: The laptop computer, which…

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