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UK: Barclaycard apologises to widow for 317-strong letter error

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Dissent

Gill Montia of Banking Times reports: Barclaycard has had to apologise to a Mrs Sandra Grant of Erith in Kent, after sending her 317 letters in one day. The recently widowed 55-year-old said it took her all morning to open the post, which contained details of various Barclaycard customers, including account numbers, names and amounts…

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UK: Anonymity proves grey area for IDScan

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Dissent

John Ozimek of The Register reports: Security software provider IDScan has been left red-faced after a page of supposedly anonymous details of ID cheats on its website turned out not to have been anonymised after all. […] To protect the anonymity of the individuals depicted, IDScan has helpfully left their photos visible but greyed out…

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Bits ‘n Pieces

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Dissent

In the justice system: In AZ, Sheila McCarthy and Christina Hansen were charged with aggravated identification theft involving stealing personal information and credit card information from an employer and an unnamed hair salon’s customers. More. In VA, Karen Priscilla Jones has been charged with aggravated identity theft as well as other crimes for stealing the…

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Ca: Privacy breach in bank slip-up

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Dissent

It was one of those small breaches that many chronologies or industry reports do not include, but the fact that it made the media offers some hope that people continue to be concerned over breaches: Joanne Hatherly of The Times Colonist reports that when a customer was considering opening an account at an RBC Royal…

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UK: Confidential files found on road

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Dissent

The BBC reports that the personal records of six people from Dove Lane Residential Home in Harrold and belonging to NHS services in the county were found in a roadway. The residential home is run by Houghton Regis-based Aldwyck Housing Group. The NHS agency responsible, Bedfordshire Continence Services, is expected to comment later.

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Hack Against ISP Hijacks Bank, Google Adsense

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports that hackers hijacked the domain name system records for NET Virtua, a major Brazilian ISP, on April 11. “Customers who visited any site that ran Google Adsense content were redirected to a site that tried to install and run a Java applet that in turn installed a Trojan horse program.” The attack…

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