These last few months have seen a lot of rain and the weather forecast predicts still more on the way. As it currently stands, the residents of around 2.4 million UK properties are at risk from fluvial (river) and coastal…
When I read about a self-storage warehouse in Croydon burning down on New Year’s Eve my thoughts went out to the customers who had lost thousands of pounds worth of belongings. One woman spoke of losing crates full of photos...…
NHS data loss scandal reached new heights as NHS England CEO Simon Stevens revealed that further investigation has found another 162,000 “lost” patient documents, in addition to the previously discovered 700,000 documents, of which more than 500,000 included sensitive patient data.…
More than 400 government documents have gone missing from the National Archives in the last four years They include Foreign Office files from the 1970s on "military and nuclear collaboration with Israel" and a 1947 letter from Winston Churchill. One…
A nursing home in Northern Ireland has been fined after a data breach relating to sensitive details about patients and staff, connected to the theft of a computer. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) launched an investigation after an unencrypted laptop…
According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (and other sources), security breaches typically result from one of the following five causes: Unintended Disclosure: Someone in or affiliated with your organisation inadvertently posts private or sensitive company or customer information on a website, Facebook or…
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According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (and other sources), security breaches typically result from one of the following five causes: Unintended Disclosure: Someone in or affiliated with your organisation inadvertently posts private or sensitive company or customer information on a website, Facebook or…
THOUSANDS of patient records have been lost by the East Midlands Ambulance Service. Nearly 42,000 electronic copies of scanned handwritten patient records have disappeared – with patients from North Lincolnshire possibly affected. The missing documents, which were stored in the…
The data included details relating to children and vulnerable people in care, campaign group Big Brother Watch said. Some 132 authorities said they had had a total of 1,035 cases of data loss or theft between 2008 and 2011. The…
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