The personal information of almost 900 customers has been lost by an employee of Bank of Ireland.
The details of 894 customer accounts, phone numbers and addresses were copied on to a USB stick which was subsequently lost. Bank of Ireland says it has informed most of the people affected by the data breach, and will monitor their accounts for unusual activity.
A quarter of UK legal firms admit that they have misplaced at least one mobile device containing confidential documents, a survey has shown.
The lax attitude of legal firms towards data security leaves case-notes, contract details and client information at risk.
The survey, conducted on 100 legal firms by market research company The Survey Shop on behalf of UK IT security firm Credant Technologies, found that 90 percent of lawyers surveyed believe their data is fully protected by a password. Four percent of lawyers do not use any security whatsoever.
Christopher Boyd, Director of FaceTime Security Labs, a malware research firm, has found a list of hacked eBay logins. The list includes 121 pages and carries 5,534 eBay accounts, including usernames, passwords and mail address, as reported by ecommerceguide on October 15, 2008.
Early plans to create a giant "Big Brother" database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit made in the UK were last night condemned by the Government's own terrorism watchdog.
Lord Carlile of Berriew QC, the independent reviewer of anti-terrorist laws, said the "raw idea" of the database was "awful" and called for controls to stop government agencies using it to conduct fishing expeditions into the private lives of the public.
Job seekers have been warned to be particularly careful when sending their CVs to employers' websites or online recruitment agencies.
An experiment involving a fake website lured 107 people into submitting their CVs, full of personal information that could have led to identity theft. Of the CVs, 61 contained enough information to apply for a credit card. The experiment was staged during the recent national identity fraud prevention week earlier in October.
Last year one of the more troubling provisions of the UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) finally came into effect. This piece of legislation made it a criminal offense to refuse to decrypt almost any encrypted data residing within the UK if demanded by authorities as part of a criminal investigation. The penalty for failure to decrypt is up to two years imprisonment for "normal" crime, and up to five years for "terrorism."
The allegations made by a parliamentarian that mobile phones of MPs are being tapped are totally baseless, says Barrak Al-Sabeeh, the CEO of Zain Kuwait. In an interview with the Arab Times, Al-Sabeeh added: “We wish to clear our stance on this issue that Zain Kuwait is not in any way involved in tapping or bugging of cell phone lines of its customers.
Confidential data on 30 million German phone users could be consulted on the Internet as a result of an error until the phone company locked access, a spokesman for Deutsche Telekom said Saturday.
Confirming a report in Monday's edition of the magazine Der Spiegel, the spokesman said on Thursday and Friday the company, Europe's leading telecommunications firm, had managed to secure the data -- including bank accounts -- relating to its clients.
Three years ago, Graham Clements, the European managing director of the Japanese packaging multinational Ishida's British subsidiary, decided to get rid of his BlackBerry and passed it on to his IT department for recycling.
In September, that BlackBerry was one of the top items on the agenda at the first board meeting that Clements had called since his return from holiday because it, and the data on it, had come back to haunt him.
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust says it has accounted for four discs that went missing, which contained the personal details of 17,990 health service staff and former employees. The incident has cost the trust (taxpayers) about £25,000.
