The President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) imposed a fine of PLN 1.9 million (EUR 460,000) on Virgin Mobile Polska for the lack of implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of the processed data. UODO stated that the company infringed the principles of data confidentiality and accountability specified in…
UK: 150,000 Arrest Records Lost in Police Data Accident
Michael Behr reports: The information was deleted as part of a routine cleaning of police databases. The arrest records of around 150,000 people have been accidentally wiped from a police database. Data such as fingerprints, DNA, and arrest histories were lost last week, according to the Times, which broke the story. The Home Office has said that the…
Co: Pitkin County COVID-19 case investigations inadvertently exposed online
PITKIN COUNTY, Colo., Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Pitkin County learned of an incident that may affect the privacy of certain information and is providing notice so that affected individuals may take steps to better protect their personal information, should they feel it is appropriate to do so. To date, Pitkin County has seen no evidence that any personal information…
SEPA Systems Knocked Offline by ‘Ongoing’ Ransomware Attack
Ross Kelly reports: Critical services such as flood forecasting are still in operation, the agency said. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has confirmed it is responding to an ongoing ransomware attack launched by a highly organised, international cybercrime group. The cyber-attack was launched on Christmas Eve and has knocked a number of key systems…
National Detergent Company in Oman Hit by Cyberattack
An Omani company has been exposed to a cyber attack which resulted in loss of some of its data. In a disclosure published by the Muscat Securities Market said: “The National Detergent company want to informs you of its exposure to an electronic attack on the company’s information technology network that caused the loss of…
M.D. Anderson’s $4.3 Million Fine for Patient Data Loss Vacated
This is huge. Mary Anne Pazanowski reports: The University of Texas’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center dodged a $4.3 million fine for losing over 35,000 people’s protected health information after the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that HHS acted arbitrarily and capriciously in finding that the provider violated two information security regulations. You can read more on…