Indian consulate tosses sensitive data into recycling center
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Visa applications from thousands of people seeking to travel to India between 2002 and 2005 were sent to a recycling center by the Indian consulate in San Francisco. Officials thought the data had been destroyed; It hadn't.
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The government has recovered the stolen laptop computer and hard drive containing sensitive data for up to 26.5 million veterans and military personnel, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said Thursday.
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A top U.S. official urged India to tighten its laws to protect intellectual property rights and ensure that sensitive information stays out of the hands of tech-savvy criminals.
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The Government Accountability Office found potential waste and fraud involving Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the following:
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The recent news that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency destroyed videotapes of interrogations of two terrorist suspects may offer a timely reminder for CIOs at private companies in the United States, tasked with electronic evidence preservation rules since last December.
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The nation's largest drugstore chains say they are working to better protect patient privacy after an investigative TV report turned up sensitive information about hundreds of customers in trash bins in cities around the country.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep. 18--MANTECA -- Apartment dwellers: Step out to your communal garbage bin and take a look inside.   Ninety percent of what has been dumped there, according to city officials, could have been recycled.
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Sensors will be used to relay data to medical files.
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A disc containing confidential details of Devon and Cornwall Police is found on a dump.
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(InfoWorld) - India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has asked the Indian government to set up a special court to try cybercrimes and other offenses under the country's Information Technology Act 2000. Having a special court will ensure that trials of cybercrime cases will be faster than in ordinary Indian courts, said Sunil Mehta, vice president of Nasscom, on Thursday. Indian court case drag on for an average of about three years, he added. None of the trials of persons charged in India for data fraud have as yet come for conviction and sentencing, Mehta said. The Indian government is considering Nasscom's request, according to Mehta. A special court will ensure that the judges are conversant with the technical issues involved in cybercrimes, Mehta said. Special courts will also be able to bring in amicus curiae or "friends of the court" who can advise the judge on cybercrimes' technical issues, he added. Nasscom of Delhi has worked with law enforcement agencies like the Indian police to make them aware of the nature of cybercrimes and how to investigate them. A number of police stations in the country now have specialized cybercrime cells to deal with offenses under the Information Technology Act. The request for a special court is part of a multi-pronged strategy by Nasscom to strengthen data protection and privacy in India's outsourcing industry. Nasscom's initiatives come in the wake of allegations in the U.S. and U.K. that Indian call center workers have stolen and sold data processed by Indian outsourcing companies. The record of India's outsourcing industry in protecting customer data and privacy is better than in the U.S., according to Mehta. Nasscom is setting up later this year a watchdog organization that will focus on the introduction and monitoring of best data security and privacy practices in the country's IT services, call center and business process outsourcing industries. The organization is called a self-regulatory organization (SRO) by Nasscom, as it is expected to operate on revenue from its services delivered to member companies that will not have any control over its operations. Besides monitoring the industry, the SRO will attempt to create a culture that respects privacy and data protection, Mehta said. The SRO will also mediate between outsourcers and their customers for resolving any conflicts that arise in their relationships, he added. Nasscom set upÂ in January a National Skills Registry that enables businesses to conduct employee background checks. About 24 Indian and multinational companies with Indian offshore service operations have signed up for the service. Approximately 20,000 employees are listed on the registry. India's outsourcing industry is, however, hiring staff in thousands each month, and a number of companies hire workers without insisting that they sign up with the registry. "We cannot mandate that companies follow the procedure, but we are pushing hard," Mehta said. Nasscom has alsoÂ started a test for applicantsÂ to the Indian outsourcing industry, to screen out candidates that lack the skills required by the country's call centers, business process outsourcing and software services companies.
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Online forum will help consumers learn how to recycle old PCs--and potentially keep government regulators at bay.
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By Steve Kuchera, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 19--.   In Indian belief, things flow in circles. So it isn't surprising that some American Indians would embrace recycling.
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A Louisana state agency acknolweedged that data stored on backup media lost from an Iron Mountain truck contained unencrypted personal data of state residents.
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Usernames and passwords of more than 100 embassy and government accounts worldwide--including the foreign ministry of Iran, the Kazakh and Indian embassies in the U.S., and the Russian embassy in Sweden--have been compromised, Computer Sweden has learned.
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(InfoWorld) - Indiaâs National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has asked U.K. broadcaster Channel Four Television to provide information from a news documentary that it plans to air Thursday evening about alleged data theft in India. Channel 4's "Dispatches" program will feature the results of a sting operation in which an undercover reporter was offered credit card information for customers of U.K. banks that have outsourced processing work to India. The men offering the information claim to have got it from staff at Indian call centers and business process outsourcing (BPO) operations, according to newspaper reports. Acting through a law firm, Nasscom has asked Channel 4 to provide it with details of the allegations it plans to air, together with evidence and any other supporting documentation, Nasscom said. It asked the broadcaster to cooperate "immediately, fully and wholeheartedlyâ with Indian authorities, to help them prosecute the alleged data thieves in India. As of late Monday in India, Channel 4 had refused to provide the information, according to Nasscom. Several sting operations by newspapers and TV channels have attempted to expose faults in the Indian call center and business process outsourcing (BPO) industries. Last year the U.K. tabloidÂ The Sun reportedÂ that its undercover reporter was sold secret information on 1,000 bank accounts by an employee of a call center in Delhi. Indian police said theyÂ could not make an arrestÂ unless a formal complaint was made by the cell centers companies involved, the banks or their customers. Some of the banks named in the report said their data had not been compromised. Nasscom's president, Kiran Karnik, accused such sting operations of goading people into committing crimes that otherwise might not have been committed. Sting operations like the one by Channel 4 sometimes go beyond uncovering wrongdoing and actually induce crimes that are then recorded and aired, he said in a statement Monday. In this case, one of the alleged criminals has said that the data he offered for sale was fake, according to Karnik. India has had its share of data theft cases, however. Earlier this year, an Indian back-office and customer support operation of the British bank HSBC Bank PLC complained that an employee had stolen confidential data, and used it to defraud 20 of the bank's customers in London to the tune of Â£233,000 ($425,000). The employee has been prosecuted by Indian police. HSBC described the incident as a one-off. Sunil Mehta, vice president of Nasscom, argued that the incidence of data theft and data privacy breaches is lower in India than in the U.K. and the U.S.
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Privacy advocates obtain records showing that people pulled aside for extra screening during international travel may have detailed records, including reason for travel, race and reading material, stored by the government for years.
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California State University officials believe the data was inadvertently thrown away, triggering a new state law requiring all people whose information was stolen to be notified.