John Leyden reports: UK debt relief charity Christians Against Poverty has begun writing to supporters following a data breach that exposed personal details – including phone and bank account numbers, and banking sort codes. Unidentified hackers broke into the charity’s systems in late July. The intrusion was only detected a week later, as an alert by Christians…
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In: Three booked for startup firm data theft
TNN reports: The Chatushrungi police have booked three office-bearers of a software company here for allegedly stealing data and vital information of a start-up IT company. The owner of the company, Abhay Ramchandra Dani (43) of Aundh, had lodged a complaint last week. In his complaint, Dani said he was the managing director of Technovate Consultancy Services, which provides online health…
AU: Albany hospital staff avoid censure over confidential patient document find
ABC reports: Staff at Albany’s public hospital have avoided serious consequences after confidential patient information was found by a member of the public in the building’s courtyard. A double-sided paper document listing the personal details of 11 mental health patients, their reason for admission and their risk factors was found in the courtyard of the Albany…
UK: Hampshire County Council fined £100,000 after confidential social services papers found
Here’s a case where as part of her deliberations, the ICO considered that a council should have known they were in contravention of the DPA because the ICO had issued three monetary penalty notices to other entities who had left confidential data behind in decommissioned buildings during the relevant time period. From the Information Commissioner’s Office:…
UK: Was Lloyds chief ‘affair’ exposed by disgruntled colleague?
James Burton and Vanessa Allen report: Lloyds Bank chiefs are investigating if an insider plot to undermine Antonio Horta-Osorio was behind revelations that he allegedly spent a weekend with a mistress on a business trip to Singapore. There are fears that sources within the chief executive’s inner circle leaked embarrassing claims that the married father…
Olympics: Hackers attack Russian whistleblower’s doping account
AFP reports: Unknown attackers have hacked into Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova’s World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) records, the watchdog announced Saturday (Aug 13). The runner, who was excluded from the Rio Olympics and lives in hiding in the United States, has been a key source of information on accusations that the Russian government organised doping on…