The Information Commissioner’s Office has served a monetary penalty of £100,000 on Kent Police after confidential information, including copies of police interview tapes, was left in the basement of a former police station. The highly sensitive information included records relating back to the 1980s, thought to have been left at the site when the building was vacated…
Category: Paper
PNC claims former employee, Morgan Stanley stole information
From the bring-your-own-device-to-work dept.: Brian Bowling reports: A former senior vice president of PNC Bank‘s Palm Beach Office used her cell phone to snap pictures of her computer screen just hours before she resigned to take a job with a competitor, the Pittsburgh-based bank claims in a federal lawsuit filed Friday. PNC Bank and PNC…
TX: Resident Finds Unshredded Copies of Personal Documents in Apartment Dumpster
Alicia Neaves reports: On Tuesday morning, a resident of the Palms Apartments in Odessa made a disturbing discovery. […] NewsWest 9 remained with the resident until police arrived to pick up the bag. Once officers arrived, apartment management kicked us off the property. To find out if it was the apartment complex who threw these…
UK: Loan firm ‘Buy As You View’ promises probe after papers found in street
Paul Kelly reports: Red-faced bosses have apologised after papers outlining debts owed to a high-interest loan company by South Tynesiders were found discarded in the street. Liz Garlinge, 55, was leaving her home in Honeysuckle Avenue, West Harton, South Shields, when she saw the highly sensitive document lying on her drive. She was stunned to…
UK: Failure to adequately redact results in undertaking for Treasury Solicitor’s Department
In the UK, the Treasury Solicitor’s Department has signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioenr’s Office. As described in the undertaking, there had been a number self-reported breaches involving exposure of individuals’ information due to incomplete redactions or failure to fully check: The Information Commissioner (the ‘Commissioner’) was contacted by the data controller on 6…
OR: Office landlord fined after trashing mortgage records in course of eviction
Eliot Njus reports: The owners of a Northeast Portland office building have been fined after a state regulator said its cleaning service threw 30 boxes of mortgage records into an unlocked trash bin while evicting a mortgage company. The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has ordered 122nd Group LLC to pay $5,000 for failing to…