Data Breaches Archive
As the UK enters its new age of austerity, with public sector organisations finding draconian budget cuts, one must fear that citizens’ personal data will be increasingly at risk. The UK public sector (led by the NHS) has never been that amazingly good …
The Data Protection Act (‘DPA’) in the UK is a cornerstone of IT and information-related legislation. It applies to all organisations that collect or hold information about living individuals. Most organisations would claim that they comply with the DPA. The reality …
I’ve been of the view, for some time, that effective corporate information security will only come to pass when company directors are prosecuted, fined and jailed for failures to implement and maintain effective information security management systems. Here are two stories …
When financial markets appear to be in free fall, many organisations might think that data protection is the least of their worries. Who cares, they might wonder, about protecting personal data if tomorrow we might not exist any more? (And, from what …
Apparently, we’re today kicking off the UK National Identity Fraud Prevention Week – and research for RSA reveals wide-spread disbelief (as in, 90% of Britons) that their personal data are safe with banks and retailers, and half the people think that not enough is done …
Virgin is a strong brand, so a welter of stories describing Virgin Media’s breach of the Data Protection Act, when it lost an unencrypted disc containing the details of some 3,000 customers, would not have been part of the PR strategy. As …
Lots of organisations think they don’t need to worry about theft of credit card data. I don’t know why. Payment card data theft is now big business – the level of professionalism available in this industry includes the development of …
Well, I did say, when the government blamed the HMRC data loss on the failure of some junior member of staff to observe the rules, that if the truth were ever to emerge, it would be that HMRC suffered from …
I read in ComputerWeekly that the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee is to re-open its inquiry into e-crime and the security of personal data, apparently due to the Government’s “vacuous, idle and irrelevant” response to its initial recommendations. …
The UK government claimed that the person who burnt the HMRC child benefit database to a disc and mailed it to the National Audit Office (NAO) was a relatively junior civil servant who had breached rules and would be subject …
