A London council has been fined £70,000 after it accidentally published a cache of personal data including medical details, cheques, and even one person’s prison record. Islington’s parking system website published unencrypted personal information of almost 90,000 people, meaning it could be accessed by simply manipulating a URL Read more on Evening Standard.
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UK: Medical records of Norfolk patients found in a petrol station, a King’s Lynn restaurant and on the pavement
Tom Bristow reports: The region’s hospitals have dismissed staff and said they are tightening up how they look after patients records in the wake of the breaches. More than 650 data protection incidents were reported in the region’s NHS trusts last year, according to data obtained by this newspaper through the Freedom of Information Act….
Convicted Russian hacker cashes in on fame with new book, Putin souvenirs
Amy Kellogg reports: A convicted Belarussian cybercriminal who was part of the biggest data theft in U.S. history said it’s much easier to hack into government computers than it is to break into big banks and credit card company servers. Sergey Pavlovich, 34, also boasted that Russia had some of the best hackers in the…
Sg: Ex-financial adviser fined for data breach
K.C. Vijayan reports: A former financial consultant was fined $1,000 for breaching data protection laws by disposing of clients’ insurance policy-related documents in a rubbish bin in a residential estate. The Commissioner for Data Protection had launched a probe after receiving a complaint on Oct 10 last year that Prudential folders were recovered from a…
CA: Breach of RNC officers’ information in Sunshine List accidental, says privacy commissioner
CBC News reports: The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has concluded that a privacy breach that led to the salary and employee ID information of some Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers being published online earlier this year was accidental. The information was published as part of the 2016 Sunshine list, which listed people who…
UK: Hospital staff sacked for prying on patients’ medical records in Suffolk and Colchester hospitals
Tom Bristow reports: Hospital staff have been dismissed and suspended for looking up patients’ confidential medical information. They are among hundreds of data protection breaches reported by the NHS in Suffolk and North Essex in the last two years. No harm was done in the majority of cases but the most common serious breaches involved…