Jason Pan reports: A New Taipei City District Court judge has been disciplined by the Judicial Yuan’s Judge Evaluation Committee (JEC) in a recent probe. The committee ruled that judge Lin Yen-peng (林晏鵬) had abused his position to infringe on someone’s privacy by conducting searches into confidential judiciary files, arising from traffic litigation case three…
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Leak of online ticketing data sparks off panic in China
ZeeNews reports: Beijing: A leak of personal information from online train ticket sales ahead of the busiest travel season of the year has spurred public outcry in China over internet vulnerability. The leaked information includes usernames, passwords, emails and a trove of personal data used for buying tickets on the official ticket-selling website of China Railway Corporation (CRC). CRC…
Incident Summary #4: Service provider inadvertently discloses email addresses of nearly 300 customers in mass email
Posted yesterday by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Service provider inadvertently discloses email addresses of nearly 300 customers in mass email Incident A customer of a service provider received a routine email from the service provider advising her of when her seasonal service would be reconnected. However, she noticed that the email…
UK: Huge data leak sees personal details of 15,000 Hackney residents published online
Fiona Parker reports: A massive blunder has seen the sensitive personal details of 15,000 Hackney residents – including address, sexuality and rent accounts – leaked online. Bungling council officers have also revealed the age and housing benefit entitlement of Hackney Homes tenants and leaseholders in the botched Freedom of Information request, which was inadvertently published…
UK: PC Katie Murray jailed for leaking Cregan and drugs info to sister and ex-lover
BBC reports: A PC who passed on intelligence about police killer Dale Cregan and planned drugs raids to her sister and drug-dealing former lover has been jailed. Katie Murray, 30, of Dunkirk Street in Droylsden, accessed police computers to get the confidential information. She was found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act and conspiracy…
Scottish Widows data protection error ‘costs customer £50k’
Tessa Norman reports: A Scottish Widows customer claims the provider has cost him £50,000 after it breached the Data Protection Act by sending details of his pension to his ex-wife. The provider has offered the customer, who cannot be named for legal reasons, £500 in compensation for sending the information to an unauthorised address. But…