ITV has an update on a previously reported breach: A Morrisons employee has denied abusing his position to fraudulently disclose personal data at the Bradford-based supermarket firm. Andrew Skelton, a senior internal auditor, denied charges under the Computer Misuse Act, the Data Protection Act and the Fraud Act. Skelton, 43, from Liverpool, was charged with…
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UK: I’ve no regrets, says policeman sacked over ‘Plebgate’ leak
The London Evening Standard reports: A former policeman who was sacked after leaking information to the media about the “Plebgate” row involving Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell has said he would do it all again and has no regrets. James Glanville was sacked from the Metropolitan Police after he leaked information to the Sun newspaper about…
IE: Investigation after New Beginning’s mortgage data was sent to overseas investment fund
Rebecca Horan reports: The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating a data security breach made by Irish mortgage campaigners New Beginning. According to The Mail on Sunday, 1,500 homeowners had their financial details sold to a €2bn overseas investment fund that aims to buy up 1,500 distressed homes here. The Malta based fund Arizun reportedly used the…
SG: Two-factor authentication for SingPass will be opt-in next year
Singapore will introduce two-factor authentication in the wake of this SingPass breach earlier this year. Kevin Kwang reports: The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) will be implementing a one-year transition period from the launch of a two-factor authentication (2FA) system for SingPass in the third quarter of 2015, it said on Thursday (Nov 27). This is because…
Italy: Garante introduces ‘progressive’ mandatory breach notification
DataGuidance reports: The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) issued, on 26 November 2014, its general resolution on biometrics (‘the Resolution’), which includes a new 24-hour data breach notification obligation. The requirement was introduced a means of balancing the new simplified rules on authorisation for use of biometrics which will no longer require the Garante’s prior…
Ca: Privacy breach at city hall
Andrew Peplowski reports: Montreal police say officers had good intentions when they required city hall visitors to provide their names, dates-of-birth and driver’s license numbers on Tuesday evening. But they never should have left the sheets of paper, with all that information, behind at the end of the evening. A reporter from the Journal de…