Revenue loses 6,500 people's data
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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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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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Spreadsheet with limited data on more than 5,000 wireless subscribers was accidentally e-mailed to other customers.
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More than 3.5 million U.S. adults lost money to phishing scams and online identity theft in the 12-month period that ended in August, a 57% increase over the previous year.
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A report funded by the banking industry finds U.S. ID fraud is down by a half-million victims in 2006. But a data-privacy expert says the study is dead wrong. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Sentiment makes bad economic data look worse.
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The electronics retailer reported a $54.6 million first-quarter loss and withdrew its financial guidance for fiscal 2008 as it cut jobs and revamped.
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US consumers and businesses have lost an estimated $US500 million ($688 million) to the internet scam known as &quot;phishing&quot;, with seven out of 10 lured to fake websites, according to a survey.
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The company reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $2.58 billion,  citing a $6.1 billion charge related to transferring employees from a multi-employer pension fund.
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The government says the loss of patient records by NHS Trusts affects 168,000 people.
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it will miss its revenue target for the July-September quarter after it failed to finalize a small number of software sales, resulting in a quarterly net loss of up to $2 million US.
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The number of people claiming unemployment benefit last month fell by 6,100 to 830,200, the Office for National Statistics said. Average earnings, including bonuses, increased by 3.8% in the year to July, down
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The company will pay $2.6 million after being charged with selling shoddy voting equipment that broke down on election day.
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The business racked up nearly &#36;1 billion in losses since 2001.
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Details on 11 million customers went awol The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined The Nationwide Building Society Â£980,000 for the loss of a laptop which contained "confidential customer data" on 11 million customers.â¦
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Shares in Google have fallen 6.7% as employees and early investors in the web search take advantage of the first chance to sell their holdings.
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A laptop containing the details of 600,000 people has been stolen, the Ministry of Defence announced Friday, in another staggering loss of personal data in Britain.