Online recruitment rogue stripped of Â£20,000
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Rip-off merchant has to sell house The man behind an UK-based online employment agency has been found guilty of ripping off workers and ordered to pay Â£20,000. Adrian Farmer's lawyers say he may have to sell his house to pay the penalties.â¦
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Ofcom fines channel Â£300,000 for breaches of broadcasting code in phone-in quiz Brainteaser.
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Apply here to empty your bank account Trying to contain damage amid reports that con artists are targeting online job sites, Monster Worldwide has shut down a rogue server that was siphoning personal information from the resumes of job seekers. The disclosure came amid new details of a Trojan that's amassed personal information on hundreds of thousands of people.â¦
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An anonymous tipster who was eligible to receive a &#36;40,000 reward for providing information that led to an arrest in a murder case has turned the money down, asking that it go instead to a charity established in the victim's name.
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Website shows how you can hit back, too An Edinburgh man has obtained damages of more than Â£1,300 from British-based spammer.â¦
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Â· Cosmetic giant fined for recruitment campaign Â· First big French firm to be convicted of racial bias
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(InfoWorld) - The U.K.'s financial services regulator has levied a heavy fine against the nation's largest building society over a stolen laptop containing confidential customer information. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) fined Nationwide Building Society Â£980,000 ($1.9 million) for "failing to have effective systems and controls to manage its information security risks," the regulator said in a statement. Nationwide, which has about 11 million customers, did not realize the laptop contained customer information and waited three weeks before starting an investigation, the FSA said. The laptop was stolen from an employee's home during a burglary in August 2006, Nationwide said in a statement. The building society believes the thief was after the laptop itself rather than the information on its hard drive. The data was for marketing purposes and did not contain any PIN numbers, passwords, or account balance information, Nationwide said. Nationwide informed its customers of the problem and no losses were reported, it said. It also commissioned a review of its information security, the FSA said. (A building society is a type of cooperative financial institution, similar to a credit union in the U.S.)
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Cash'n'Carrion Final clearance at Â£9 inc VAT and P&amp;P
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A UK company is ordered to pay out Â£750 in damages for sending spam.
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Bullet proof policies - if you're a director The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Norwich Union Â£1.26m for failing to safeguard customers against fraud.â¦
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Company wins $84,177 over term violation; U.K. individuals, though, are virtually helpless against spammers, lawyer says.
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Insurance firm Norwich Union is fined Â£1.26m after customers lost Â£3.3m through identity fraud.
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Bid $5m on own auctions, attorney general claims A jewellery company which allegedly bid on its own eBay auctions to "illegally drive up prices by as much as 20 per cent" will pay $400,000 (Â£204,000) in "restitution and penalties", Reuters reports.â¦
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Education Dept. disables online payment feature of site, following security gaffe that could affect up to 21,000.
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The company that ran phone competitions for GMTV is fined a record Â£250,000 after viewers lost an estimated Â£20m.
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Capital One is fined Â£175,000 by the market watchdog for payment protection insurance sales failings.
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Business & money: Jon Robins on the credit reference error that linked an innocent Briton to a wanted man.