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Bank’s credit card bills found dumped

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Dissent

Ellen Jia reports: At least 500 credit card bills were found dumped at a recycling station in the Pudong New Area yesterday, raising concerns over a possible leak of bank customers’ personal information. The bills, in more than 10 bunches of 50 each, were from the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. The bank and the Pudong…

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UK: NHS trust signs undertaking after two breaches involving paper records

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Dissent

The Information Commissioner’s Office reports that an undertaking has been signed today by Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. The trust breached the Data Protection Act by losing the personal information of 49 patients in two separate incidents earlier this year. In one case a member of the public found a handover sheet containing names…

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UK: Walsall residents’ details dumped in skip

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Walsall Council breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally dumping hundreds of local residents’ postal vote statements in a skip, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The statements  – which were disposed of in March 2011 by an external contractor on the council’s behalf – included people’s names, addresses,…

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North Carolina psychologist settles state charges for dumping patients’ records, agrees to pay $40,000

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Dissent

The following press release from North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper is a follow-up to a breach previously covered on PHIprivacy.net: Dr. Ervin Batchelor of the Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation in Charlotte has paid $40,000 for illegally dumping files containing patients’ financial and medical information, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced Wednesday. “Any business you entrust with your information has a…

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OH: Candidate for world’s dumbest criminal pleads guilty to attempting to extort Xavier University

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Dissent

It’s not that often that we find out about extortion attempts related to data breaches, so when we do, I try to follow up on them.  Here’s a follow-up to an extortion attempt involving Xavier University that I previously covered on this blog. Kimball Perry reports on a very poorly executed crime: Recently released from…

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UK: Children’s case files found in second-hand furniture shop

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Dissent

From the ICO: The Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) breached the Data Protection Act by failing to keep sensitive information about the welfare of young people secure in two separate incidents, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The first incident happened in September last year when nine case files were mistakenly left in a…

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