By JOHN F. BURNS
LONDON — In the latest of a string of government security breaches involving citizens’ personal information, a private consulting company working for Britain’s Home Office has lost a memory stick containing details on all of the 84,000 prisoners serving time in England and Wales.
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http://www.computerworld.com/…
Leo King
Computer World
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:02 EDT
The U.K. Ministry of Justice has lost the personal data of about 45,000 people in a string of IT and physical security breaches during the national government’s past fiscal year, according to an annual report issued by the agency.
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Liz Austin Peterson
Houston Chronicle
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:20 EDT
Employee put info of 1,200 people onto a device and now cannot find it
Many of the medical and financial records stored on a flash drive that has gone missing from the Harris County Hospital District belonged to patients with HIV or AIDS, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said today.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/…
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Published Monday 4th August 2008 19:55 GMT
A financial analyst for Countrywide Home Financial, one of the world’s biggest and most troubled mortgage lenders, has been arrested and charged with stealing personal information concerning a breathtaking number of the company’s customers.
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Posted by kdawson on Wednesday August 06, @08:06AM
jafo alerts us to an SFGate story reporting that the lost “Clear” Program laptop has turned up in the same office from which it was reported missing, but not in its previous location. “A preliminary investigation shows that the information was not compromised… The computer held names, addresses and birthdates for people applying to the program, as well as driver’s license, passport and green card information. But, she said, the computer contained no Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, fingerprints, facial images or other biometric information… The information was encrypted on the server, but not on the laptop, although it should have been… However, it was protected by two levels of passwords.” Reader jafo adds, “Pardon me if I have little confidence that an organization that loses a sensitive laptop for 9 days is able to tell if it was compromised.”
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