The BBC reports that NHS Grampian has confirmed that a laptop containing names and addresses, dates of birth, and coded clinical information of 1,392 patients has been stolen from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. The laptop was stolen from a locked office cupboard sometime between the evening of April 15 and the next morning. According to a…
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EU leaders’ passport numbers and medical info found on public computer in Prague
The Helsinki Times reports that a publicly available computer at a Prague hotel contained the passport numbers and itineraries of about 200 leaders from EU member states who gathered there April 5 for an EU-US summit. The breach has been attributed to human error. The breach was discovered by a Finnish tourist who used the…
HK: Data of 15,000 NUS alumni leaked
Tan Weizhen reports: Computer security is being beefed up across the National University of Singapore (NUS) after sensitive data of more than 15,000 alumni members was leaked in an e-mail. On April1, the NUS Career Centre sent an e-mail to about 450 NUS alumni, all of whom graduated last year, to invite them to a…
SE: Credit card fraudsters target Ikea
David Landes reports: Police have launched a credit card fraud investigation after employees at an Ikea in central Sweden discovered a suspicious device attached to one of the store’s card payment machines….. Authorities believe the machine was in place for about four hours on Monday and may have been used to collect credit card information…
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities breach worse than originally thought
As an update to the story previously reported, The Mainichi Daily News reports that: …. personal information on thousands of customers that a former middle manager sold to personal data sellers was leaked or resold to a total of 80 companies — five times more than originally announced. Retrieving the customers’ information has proved difficult,…
CO: Weld DA files appeal involving fraud by illegal immigrants
Monte Whaley of The Denver Post reports: Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck is asking the Colorado Court of Appeals to overturn a judge’s decision that stopped his investigation of identity theft involving illegal immigrants. […] Weld sheriff’s deputies in October searched Amalia’s Translation and Tax Service in Greeley, where they took more than 5,000…