Vanessa Houlder reports: Britain has approached Germany to buy data stolen from a Swiss bank in an effort to discover details of accounts hidden in the country by potential UK tax evaders. […] A number of German politicians, as well as the Swiss government, have criticised Berlin’s decision to purchase the stolen data. Although the…
Category: Theft
Swiss Data Affair Could Pay Off Handsomely for Germany
The extent of tax evasion by a number of German citizens with Swiss bank accounts appears to be far wider than originally thought. As the German government prepares to fork out a considerable sum for a CD with information about Germans suspected of dodging taxes, a newspaper reports that tax authorities could recover up to…
UK: 5,400 medical files stolen in Downpatrick break-in
Some might not consider this a breach because of the encryption: Medical records of 5,400 patients have been stolen from a doctors’ surgery in Downpatrick. The break-in happened at the surgery of Drs Hannah and McGoldrick at Pound Lane over the Christmas period. They were in two computer hard disk drives and several DVDs containing…
Bronx man found guilty in million-dollar ID theft and tax fraud
Felix Nkansah, 28, was found guilty of participating in an identity theft ring and defrauding the United States Treasury. His conviction followed a one-week trial in Manhattan federal court. According to the Superseding Indictment and evidence presented at trial: Beginning in 2007, Nkansah participated in an identity theft ring whose purpose was to file, via…
PA: Greensburg medical facility laptops stolen
Bob Stiles reports: Two laptop computers containing patient information were stolen from two Greensburg medical complexes over the weekend, city police said Tuesday. One theft occurred at Dr. Barry Bupp’s dental practice in Medical Commons One on South Street, the other in Dr. Elie Abdallah’s office in the Medical Arts Building on Shearer Street, police…
UK: ATL agrees to improve information security after thousands of union members’ personal details are stolen
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) in breach of the Data Protection Act after a laptop and memory stick were reported lost or stolen, containing the personal details of over 6,000 union members. The laptop was the property of the ATL and contained the personal details of…