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BT apologises for BTopenworld security breach
News A BT spokesman says that a full investigation is currently being carried out into yesterday's breach and promises to take our reader's information into consideration. A red-faced BT on Friday officially apologised by email to those 6900 individuals...
[April 28, 2000, 12:15]
Compliance: The California Security Breach Notification Act (SB 1386)
White Papers The California Security Breach Notification Act states that any business or agency that uses a computer to store confidential personal information about a California resident must immediately notify that individual upon discovering any breach to...
[May 15, 2008, 1:01]
Virgin.net calls police over security breach
News The police have been called in to assist Internet service provider Virgin.net following Sunday's "security breach," that forced the company to close all its email accounts and prevented thousands of users getting online.
[January 11, 2000, 12:05]
Security breach delays Gnome 2.6 release
News A security breach is likely to delay for several days today's scheduled release of the next version of the popular Gnome open source desktop environment, a member of the release team said. Jeff Waugh, the head beekeeper of the Gnome Release Team...
[March 24, 2004, 9:45]
Another day, another data breach
Leader Over the weekend, news broke of a data breach affecting up to 5,000 prison staff, whose details were on a hard disk lost by contractor EDS two months ago. Voluntary data-breach disclosure in the UK simply has not worked, as seen by the clockwork...
[September 8, 2008, 17:52]
Watchdog aims to compel data-breach confessions
News According to Fielder, the UK is failing to keep up with the US, where about 40 states have a data-breach notification law in place. The National Consumer Council watchdog is calling on lawmakers to force businesses to confess to data breaches.
[September 2, 2008, 9:22]
Watchdog warns Foreign Office over data breach
News The ICO was alerted to a security breach on the website of UKvisas, the joint Home Office and FCO directorate responsible for visa processing, and immediately launched an investigation into the site. As soon as the breach was exposed, UKvisas...
[November 14, 2007, 14:50]
Watchdog: HMRC did breach data laws
News It is clear that there was a breach of data-protection requirements," said Richard Thomas, the information commissioner. After the disclosure of the breach, the government appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers chairman Kieran Poynter to report on the...
[December 18, 2007, 13:54]
Home Office rapped over data-protection breach
News This breach illustrates that, even though a contractor lost the data, it is the data controller (the Home Office) which is responsible for the security of the information. Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office has found the Home...
[January 23, 2009, 12:25]
US payment processor in credit data breach
News A US-based payment processor has suffered an information breach that could have compromised millions of credit-card details. No unencrypted PINs (personal identification numbers), addresses or telephone numbers were involved in the breach, the...
[January 21, 2009, 15:42]
Carphone Warehouse in 'serious' data breach
News It is obviously a serious breach. The companies were found to be in "serious" breach of the Data Protection Act by the ICO following a catalogue of errors that included passing inaccurate names, addresses and debts to credit reference and...
[January 17, 2008, 11:02]
Watchdog calls for 'reckless data-breach' offence
News For the most part, the ICO cannot impose a penalty for a breach that has occurred. While individuals can be prosecuted for unlawfully obtaining personal data, current sanctions are designed to make an organisation that has suffered a breach liable...
[January 30, 2008, 16:52]
too many breach notices?
Talkback In the States we debate the difference between a serious breach of security and a trivial one. It is irresponsible for law and legal practice to bury consumers with an excessive number of data breach notices.
[July 8, 2008, 15:34]
Research leads to fresh calls for data-breach laws
News In a survey of 300 IT directors, chief technology officers and IT security managers in the public and private sector, one in 10 admit to falling victim to a security breach. Of those organisations that have experienced a data breach, 60 percent did...
[September 26, 2008, 9:22]
Dabs customers caught in Internet security breach
News BuyB4Sold.co.uk has admitted that the security breach was caused by a "human error". The credit card details of 127 Dabs.com customers were compromised on 7 September by one of the company's software merchants, BuyB4Sold.co.uk.
[September 14, 2001, 17:22]
Symantec, RSA call for unified data-breach law
News Security vendors RSA and Symantec have called for a single US federal data-breach notification law, echoing similar demands in the UK. At the RSA security conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, both John Thompson, the chief executive officer of...
[April 9, 2008, 10:59]
ICO: Data-breach spate 'no worse' than normal
News The Information Commissioner's Office has said that the rash of data-breach reports in the past five months is due not to more data breaches, but to more people admitting to them. Maddison said that it is "often the simplest of procedural errors...
[February 15, 2008, 16:01]
definition of breach
Talkback Should each citizen therefore be mailed 100 breach notices every day? Legally and ethically speaking, we in the US do not have a competent definition of what is and is not a security breach. Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/09/definition...
[September 10, 2008, 8:07]
3 in 5 British firms suffer security breach - report
News As many as three in five British businesses have experienced a computer-related security breach in the last two years, according a new technical report into information security to be published next week.
[April 3, 2000, 15:14]
Exclusive: Egg admits security breach
News UK Online bank Egg, blamed "human error" Wednesday for the security breach which allowed a user to access another customer's account. Halifax was the victim of a similar security breach last week -- with a customer logging onto someone elses share...
[December 1, 1999, 13:26]
