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Fasthosts resets passwords after breach
News The hosting company Fasthosts has reset all its customers' passwords after the breach of one of the company's servers. In mid-October the company, which also provides business ADSL, wrote to its customers to make them aware of the breach and ask...
[November 30, 2007, 16:30]
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]
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]
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]
Security chief: Data-breach laws must be fair
News Any UK data-breach legislation must not single out businesses or consumers but be fair to both, according to a security company chief. Phillip Dunkelberger, president and chief executive of data-encryption company PGP, said any UK legislation on...
[September 20, 2007, 8:50]
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]
Companies advised on data-breach clean-up
News Any organisation trying to cope with the consequences of a data breach should beware of getting bogged down in the details, according to a former US Air Force major. The US Air Force experienced a data breach in May 2005 when 33,000 personal staff...
[September 20, 2007, 14:15]
Ohio University suffers massive security breach
News Little personal information was believed to be lost in that breach, but a second breach was found three days later on 24 April. Data thieves may have plundered Social Security numbers and other private information — including health records...
[May 12, 2006, 9:00]
'Breach of contract' ended ITNet's work with Cabinet Office
News A statement says the agreement was ended because of breach of contract. The Cabinet Office has fleshed out why it has severed its contract with ITNet for a range of key government contracts, pulling few punches.
[June 30, 2004, 14:20]
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]
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]
Debit card breach mystery deepens
News In letters to affected customers, Bank of America and Washington Mutual said they were cancelling debit cards because of a security breach at a "third-party" location. The December statement also did not say whether the security breach was...
[February 13, 2006, 8:50]
HSBC Bangalore suffers £233,000 security breach
News A security breach at HSBC's offshore data-processing unit in Bangalore has led to £233,000 being stolen from the accounts of a small number of UK customers. He declined to comment any further on the details of the breach but said all affected...
[June 28, 2006, 11:55]
IT industry split over data-breach penalties
News But the report is splitting opinion among senior figures in the IT industry, with disagreement over whether the government should resort to legislation in an attempt to prevent future incidents similar to the HM Revenue & Customs data breach.
[January 7, 2008, 8:10]
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]
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]
Privacy experts: TJX breach was 'foreseeable'
News The risk of a breach of sensitive personal information held by retail giant TJX earlier this year was foreseeable, but the company failed to put in place adequate security safeguards, an investigation by privacy authorities in Canada has concluded.
[September 26, 2007, 14:12]
Asia urged to strengthen data-breach laws
News Governments in Asia need stronger data-breach laws to ensure businesses improve the security of their customer data, according to a senior CA executive. Strong data-breach laws will also ensure companies take data security more seriously...
[September 28, 2007, 9:37]
