Virgin Media burns customer banking details to CD, then loses it: “ If only they had some sort of network instead… Virgin Media is conducting an internal inquiry into why 3,000 customers’ bank details were…
Yet another data security breach… Six laptops stolen from hospital: “Computers containing information about 20,000 patients are stolen from a secure room in a south London hospital.” (Via BBC News.)
Phorm failed to mention ‘illegal’ trials at Home Office meeting in 2007: “ Just fancy that! Exclusive The Home Office held a private meeting with Phorm in August last year, but BT’s interception and profiling…
Gov claims ‘password protection’ OK for sensitive docs: “ Blears docs should never have been on stolen PC The government sent the security industry into gales of laughter today when it insisted that sensitive documents…
FSA fines stockbrokers for poor data security: “A firm of stockbrokers has been fined for failing to adequately protect its customers from the risk of identity fraud. The FSA said its mistakes included failing to…
The Independent Exclusive: New batch of terror files left on train IoS returns confidential documents to Treasury as officials promise to tighten procedures By Simon Evans and Margareta Pagano Sunday, 15 June 2008″ Secret government…
More secret files found on train: “A further batch of confidential government documents has been found on a train, the Independent on Sunday says.” The Independent on Sunday says it was handed the documents, which…
Intelligence documents left on a train: “ Laptop ban no barrier to government’s data giveaway A senior civil servant has been suspended for leaving top secret intelligence documents on a Waterloo to Surrey train.… “…
Secret terror files left on train: “An inquiry is underway into a ‘serious’ security breach after top-secret documents on al-Qaeda are left on a train.” (Via BBC News.)
EU mulls intervention over BT’s secret Phorm trials: Your views sought The European Commission is considering intervening over the failure of UK data watchdogs to punish BT for the way it secretly co-opted tens of…