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…
Category: Paper
TN: Personal Records Found in Dumpster
Some breaches make me want to curse. This news report out of Sevierville, Sevier County in Tennessee makes me want to yell, “When the hell are businesses going to start getting fined for just dumping unshredded files with PII?” … Kim Pierce runs a video store in Sevierville and was shocked at what she found…
UK: Telford and Wrekin Council fined £90,000 following disclosure of vulnerable children’s data
From the ICO, another large penalty: Telford and Wrekin Council has been issued with a penalty of £90,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), following a breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) involving the disclosure of confidential and sensitive personal data relating to four vulnerable children. The fine was issued following two similar data…
UK: Contract catering firm signs undertaking to improve data protection
Without fanfare, the ICO has published an undertaking signed by Holroyd Howe Independent Ltd in Reading. The gist of the breach is that in response to a request for a copy of an ex-employee’s payslip (requested by the ex-employee), the data processor mailed a document disclosing the relevant month’s payslips for all of the contract catering firm’s…
UK: Personal details of Army snipers found in trunk of a second-hand car
This morning’s “Oh FFS!” breach: details of 28 snipers were found in the trunk of a used car purchased last August. The documents included “the names of personnel from a number of regiments, including one currently operating in Afghanistan, as well as details of a snipers’ training course.” And if that didn’t make it easy…
IA: Error in Warren County exposes thousands to possible ID theft
Lee Rood reports: The state on Friday notified about 3,000 Warren County residents that there was a slight chance that identity records may have been exposed after a December fire and waste-handling error two months later. The fire destroyed the Warren County-owned human services office in Indianola early on the morning of Dec. 4, 2011….