UK Admits Losing Data on 3 Million People
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The UK government says that its U.S. contractor lost a hard drive with personal data on 3 million drivers in training.
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14,000 accounts suspended after latest data breach Skipton Financial Services has confessed to losing a laptop containing records of 14,000 customers. Information exposed by the breach includes names, addresses, National Insurance numbers, and fund investment details of clients of Skipton's Fidelity FundsNetwork.â¦
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'Basic rights need to be guaranteed' in the third pillar The EU's data protection watchdog has warned that European officials are in danger of eroding basic data protection principles and has called on them to reconsider their actions.â¦
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The transport secretary tells MPs the personal details of 3m British learner drivers were lost in the US.
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The government says the loss of patient records by NHS Trusts affects 168,000 people.
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Thirty-seven percent of disks bought in the U.S. during a survey had personal data on them. Of 133 disks bought in the U.K., 44% of them didn't even work. But of those that did, 19% had enough information on them to identify the organization from which they had come, 65% had enough data to identify named people, and 17% contained "illicit" data.
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Nine NHS Trusts admit losing patients' details in the latest missing data crisis to strike the government.
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We don't care so they don't care The latest data giveaway by the UK's Ministry of Defence shows that not even the most basic IT policies are being followed.â¦
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Ruth Kelly tells Commons that names, addresses and phone numbers of candidates have gone missing
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A computer tape containing personal data of 650,000 customers of about 230 retailers including J.C. Penney Co is missing, credit card issuer GE Money said on Friday.
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Hard disk containing details on 3 million candidates goes missing at facility run by contractor for the Driving Standards Agency.
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Personal data on about 135,000 Johns Hopkins employees and patients were lost last month, the university announced yesterday, when a contractor did not return backup computer tapes from the hospital and the university payroll.
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The Eden Project, one of the most esteemed environmental organizations in the UK, has turned out to be just as vulnerable to losing important data as any non-green enterprise.
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Missing drive housed 38,000 current and former students' and employees' identifying information.
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A government body apologises after it emerges the personal details of 1,400 Scottish students go missing in the post.
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HM Revenue and Customs admits losing the details of 6,500 customers of a pension firm at its Cardiff offices.
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NOVEMBER 26, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - IT system failures continued to plague the UK government this week, when as many as 80,000 civil servants working for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) had to deal with what is being described in the local