From the UK Ministry of Justice: Reference Number : CP22/09 Status: Open Open date: 15 October 2009 Close date: 07 January 2010 A consultation on exercising the power to provide for custodial sanctions for those found guilty of knowingly or recklessly obtaining, disclosing, selling or procuring the disclosure of personal data without the consent of…
Laptop Stolen From Halifax Health Employee’s Car
Stephanie Coueignoux reports: Investigators are trying to track down a laptop stolen from a Halifax Health employee. The laptop contains private patient information. Thirty-three thousand patients are affected by this theft. While there is confidential information on the laptop, hospital officials said they are confident whoever stole the laptop will not be able to access…
Patients' Personal Information May Have Been Hacked
WXII12.com reports that some people notified of the UNC Chapel Hill breach had no idea that their data had been shared and had not consented to it: Bev Olson, who lives in Forsyth County, said her information was shared with UNC without her knowledge after she had a mammography performed. “I think there’s been a…
Personal data for thousands of former adult students go missing
Kipp Hanley reports: Nearly 80,000 former adult education students’ personal information stored on a flash drive was lost in Richmond on Sept. 21 according to a Virginia Department of Education press release issued Wednesday. The information went missing after being given to a representative of Virginia Tech’s Center for Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Programming for…
Card firm hacking hits thousands of Swedes
David Landes reports: Debit card information for tens of thousands of Swedish banking customers may have fallen into the wrong hands following a security breach at card manufacturers MasterCard and Visa. Computer systems at both card makers were breached recently, allowing hackers to get away with data on thousands of banking cards, the Aftonbladet newspaper…
Lags find guards’ files in waste bag
Justin Penrose reports: A convict phoned a prison officer at his home and threatened to kill him after confidential details of hundreds of warders fell into the hands of lags. Inmates got the names, addresses and National Insurance numbers of the officers when they were given the job of moving rubbish sacks. The threatened warder…