From BBC: The Information Commissioner’s office says it has been informed about the serious data protection breach involving a helpline charity in Derry. Contact NI, which runs the Lifeline service, confirmed the identities of up to 20 people who contacted the service were clearly visible on some of the confidential documents that were found in…
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Employee files found outside Fred’s Super Dollar in Midfield
Mike McClanahan reports from Alabama: A tip from viewer led CBS42 to a stack of files full of valuable personal information, just out in the open…ripe for the picking for identity thieves. There were ten folders in all. Full of employee names, phone numbers, social security numbers, addresses, work histories, birthdays, and even copies of…
UK: Data breach exposed as council launches new policy
Ouch. Information Age reports: A data breach at Dumfries and Galloway Council was reported just hours after the council announced a new data protection policy. The Scottish local council announced yesterday that it had approved a new data protection policy, having suffered two significant data breaches last year. In one incident, salary information about 9,000…
NY: Head of youth program fired over discarded sensitive documents
News12 reports on an incident in the Bronx: The head of a summer youth program in West Farms is out of a job after sensitive and personal information was found dumped out on the sidewalk. The discarded files were left in plain sight, piled in a Dumpster across from the Phipps Community Development Center. The…
FL: Personal information from old Tampa car dealership could be compromised
Here’s another case where records were left behind after a business was abandoned. James Jackson reports from Florida: Hillsborough County Code Enforcement officials are keeping a close eye on an old Bay area car dealership, after they say someone broke in and ransacked the place. They say vandals broke windows and doors, sprayed gang graffiti…
UK: Dumfries and Galloway Council makes childminder data apology
BBC reports on yet another council breach: A council has apologised “unreservedly” after details of thousands of childminders were “inadvertently” sent to a number of childcare providers. The information had been provided to Dumfries and Galloway Council by the Care Inspectorate. The incident has been reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office and those affected have…