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UK: ICO issues stark reminder to NHS bodies on patient records

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Dissent

From the press release (pdf) from the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is reminding NHS bodies of the importance of data security having found four more NHS organisations in breach of the Data Protection Act. Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Central Lancashire Primary Care Trust, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust…

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UK: 5,600 patients’ records ‘lost’ on memory stick

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Dissent

Claire Lomax of Telegraph & Argus reports that personal information of patients was on an unsecured flash drive lost by an employee of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust who did not follow procedures. The flash drive, which was reportedly lost in the library at Leeds Metropolitan University on April 21, contained patients’ names, addresses,…

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Ca: More patients’ data lost

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Dissent

Adam Huras of The Telegram reports on two small recent breaches in New Brunswick and Ontario involving patient data. In one case, after searching for months to locate missing files of three patients, patients were sent letters notifying them of the loss. That’s when the health authority discovered that one of the three patients had…

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AU: Online share trader CommSec vulnerable to hackers

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Dissent

Nick Higginbottom and Stephen McMahon of Herald Sun report on how weak passwords just won’t cut it: Security at the nation’s biggest online trader has been exposed as wide open to attack by computer hackers. Security flaws at CommSec potentially endangered accounts containing billions of dollars of mum-and-dad investors’ money. After a Herald Sun investigation,…

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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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