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Recent inquiries revealed that the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD) is having difficulties taking care of their IT equipment, the number of device losses from May 2010 totaling somewhere close to 1000.
In a response to a TheyWorkForYou inquiry, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Andrew Robathan revealed... |
29 November 2011
05:28 GMT |
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Since the release of iLife 11 earlier this month, a number of customers upgrading to iPhoto 11 started reporting data loss. There doesn’t seem to be a large number of affected users, but these occurrences may also not be “extremely rare”, as Apple implies in a note describing the iPhoto 9.0.1 update... |
30 October 2010
09:14 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed an issue for customers running Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in which the platforms can corrupt disk volumes and lead to data loss on computers with HDDs larger than 2 terabytes (TB). According to the Redmond company, in addition to running either Windows 7 or Windows server 2008 R2 on ... |
23 August 2010
10:56 GMT |
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Users of a Palm handset who were in the position of synchronizing their backed up data to another webOS device or to one that has been reseted have recently discovered that a lot of personal information stored on their online Palm Profile went missing. The password-protected Web page enabled them to back up contacts,... |
26 November 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Software giant Microsoft announced on Monday that Sidekick users who lost data during the recent server outage should be able to start restoring their contacts as soon as this week, and today it has announced that the process has already been started. Sidekick users can now restore contacts to their devices, this bei... |
20 October 2009
09:51 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has addressed a new statement release to T-Mobile Sidekick users, announcing them that it managed to recovered the data lost during the recent outage. According to the company, it has managed to recover almost all of the lost data, if not all of it, which means that users affect... |
15 October 2009
06:36 GMT |
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The Sidekick data loss issue that made the headlines during the past few days has been brought to court by Sidekick customer Maureen Thompson from Atlanta, who filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and T-Mobile on the account that these companies failed to securely and automatically back up users' data, although the... |
15 October 2009
04:23 GMT |
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T-Mobile Sidekick users have been going through a rough period lately, as the Danger Services they were relying on were interrupted on Friday, October 2, and latest reports suggest that it is possible for some of them to never recover the personal files stored in the cloud and lost during the outage. T-mobile has alr... |
14 October 2009
02:39 GMT |
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Wireless carrier T-Mobile issued on Monday yet another statement regarding the Sidekick data loss issue. According to the company, there are chances that users' data will be restored, and the damage caused by the server failure is not as big as originally believed. The service has been already restored, the mobi... |
13 October 2009
03:12 GMT |
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A 0-day vulnerability in HyperVM, a virtualization application produced by Lxlabs, led to a major hack on the servers of VAServ, a UK-based hosting provider. The attackers obtained root access and wiped large portions of the data. VAServ is a low-cost virtual private server (VPS) provider serving thousands of custom... |
9 June 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Job-listing website Monster.com has fallen victim to unknown hackers, who obtained unauthorized access to their database and downloaded account logins, as well as the corresponding personal information. The website warns that the stolen data could be used to launch phishing attacks.The Monster Network is a popular re... |
24 January 2009
04:51 GMT |
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RBS WorldPay, a popular payment processing service, has announced that an unknown and unauthorized party has illegally obtained access to its computer systems. The personal information of 1.5 million customers, as well as the Social Security numbers of 1.1 million, may have been compromised, according to the company.... |
28 December 2008
06:34 GMT |
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After the UK government was hit by numerous data loss incidents this year, the Royal family suffered a similar security breach. The personal laptop of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, was stolen from a photo studio. Fergie, as the British media often refers to the Duchess who made a passion for amateur photograp... |
19 December 2008
11:02 GMT |
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A security breach, which seems to have been caused by a programming error, exposed thousands of e-mails sent by Ecademy members to the website's technical support department. According to the company running the website, the issue was fixed within 30 minutes since the moment it became aware of it. Ecademy is one... |
18 December 2008
10:31 GMT |
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According to security breach notices received by the Office of the Attorney General in Maryland, recent incidents at both Symantec and HP compromised the personal information of a number of employees. This was the result of two laptops containing sensitive, though unencrypted data, being stolen. HP announced (PDF fi... |
12 December 2008
10:29 GMT |
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When it comes down to securing sensitive data, Windows Server 2008, via Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS), will integrate closely with RSA’s DLP Suite 6.5, as of later this month. The move is an integral part of a much wider strategy of the Redmond company to help customers not only bo... |
5 December 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Panic struck many members of the whites-only right wing British National Party (BNP) when they found out that their personal details had been leaked out on the Internet. The membership list of the BNP, which is now posted online on multiple websites as well as p2p networks, contains personal information such as names... |
19 November 2008
08:55 GMT |
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A survey conducted in the UK preceding the Get Safe Online Week revealed that one in five UK Internet users fell victims to online scams, while one third of them were affected by computer viruses in the past year. According to the experts at the GetSafeOnline project, the compromised identity of a UK citizen, wh... |
18 November 2008
09:54 GMT |
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The IT personnel from UF's College of Dentistry discovered, during maintenance, that one of their servers had been remotely compromised. The staff found unauthorized software installed on the server that also contained personal information of more than 330,000 former and current patients.The personal records inc... |
17 November 2008
10:08 GMT |
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The Bank of Ireland (BOI) has launched an internal investigation after finding out that a USB stick containing account details was lost. The bank informed the affected customers and placed the accounts under supervision for suspicious activity.According to the bank, a single employee was responsible for the incident ... |
6 November 2008
05:11 GMT |
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The British Mail on Sunday newspaper reports that it came into possession of a USB stick containing the source code of the government's Gateway system as well as personal details of some of the service's registered members. The USB stick was lost outside a pub in Cannock, Staffordshire, by an employee of At... |
3 November 2008
08:29 GMT |
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According to The Register, a laptop belonging to the world renowned financial consulting firm Deloitte has been stolen. The laptop contained the personal and pension information of hundreds of thousands of workers employed by Deloitte's clients. Amongst the affected persons are UK railway workers and the entire ... |
13 October 2008
11:39 GMT |
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The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a nonprofit organization that tracks data breaches in U.S., reported 516 incidents that resulted in a total of over 30 million personal records being compromised so far in 2008, out of which 97.5% were electronically stored.The ITRC gathers the reports from various media sou... |
7 October 2008
10:21 GMT |
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The German mobile phone services operator T-Mobile has admitted losing the personal details of 17 million of its customers. Even though the incident happened in early 2006, the company only mentioned it last Saturday due to an article published in the German magazine Der Spiegel.The information included customers&rsq... |
6 October 2008
09:53 GMT |
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A deliveryman from Hertfordshire, UK, bought a camera for £17 (around $30) from eBay. After returning from a vacation in the US, the man tried to download his pictures only to discover images of rocket launchers and photos of al-Qaeda terrorists along with their names and fingerprints.The records fo... |
1 October 2008
08:03 GMT |
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has to deal with yet another sensitive information data leak incident. According to the Daily Mail, three portable storage devices containing the personal information of up to 50,000 retired and active military personnel have been stolen from the RAF Innsworth base in Gloucestershire.... |
29 September 2008
06:25 GMT |
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The police executed a bench warrant and arrested a 60-year-old man resident of Solana Beach, California. He is charged with computer intrusion and extortion and he is scheduled to appear in a federal court on October 31. Bruce Mengler is accused of hacking his way into a promotional website belonging to the US branch... |
24 September 2008
07:39 GMT |
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Users reported on Monday, according to The Register, that The Aberdeen Press and Journal website made public personal information of its registered members, through a simple URL manipulation. By simply changing a value in a URL, one could read sensitive information like the real name, home address, e-mail address and... |
2 September 2008
10:56 GMT |
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An USB memory stick containing personal information of tens of thousands of prisoners from the UK has been lost, as the British Home Office confirmed. Although some of the objectives of the institution are related to safeguarding "people's identity and the privileges of citizenship," important information, such ... |
22 August 2008
04:42 GMT |
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HSBC Bank was once again brought in trouble after having lost approximately 159,000 customer records belonging to clients based in Hong Kong. According to CyberInsecure.com, the data loss was a result of an incident occurred on April 26 due to the renovation of a Kwun Tong branch. The lost data included the name of t... |
9 May 2008
10:45 GMT |
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A list concerning the immigrants who must be watched by the Hong Kong authorities has been leaked on the web due to what appears to be the mistake of an employee. According to The Earth Times, the employee who caused the data loss was recently hired at the Immigration Department in Hong Kong. However, the way the fil... |
9 May 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Microsoft has released an update for a NTFS backup corruption bug affecting Windows Home Server. This is an entirely new problem impacting Microsoft's server operating system aimed at household environments, and the KB950190 update is already available for download, resolving the issue. However, the fix is not d... |
9 May 2008
04:01 GMT |
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Today's malicious activities are most intended to steal people's information, no matter if we're talking about names, addresses, social security numbers or credit card details. Although most victims would be tempted to believe that hackers steal these details in order to compromise their computers and ... |
24 April 2008
05:10 GMT |
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The HMRC data loss is surely a case which should be mentioned in the IT security books because at that time, there were no less than 25 million victims who saw their details lost in the unknown. However, it's sad to see more and more similar cases although the HMRC case obviously underlined the need for more and... |
22 April 2008
17:31 GMT |
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Sensitive details of approximately 71,000 Georgia patients were published on the web, being available for no less than seven weeks, WellCare of Georgia, Inc., today announced in a notification. The information concerning the members of "Georgia Families" included names, birthdates, social security numbers and other p... |
14 April 2008
08:46 GMT |
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Oh God, we saw so many similar situations in the past that I'm truly amazed companies/organizations handling important consumers details are still vulnerable to information leaking. So, in case the HMRC data loss or the numerous laptops left behind by officials were not enough, here's one more: HSBC, "the w... |
8 April 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Approximately 63 children have been exposed to identity theft after nine laptops belonging to workers of the Middlesbrough Council got stolen a few days ago. All the affected individuals will be contacted in the next few days in order to remain up-to-date with the latest details of the investigation, BBC informed tod... |
18 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Jeremy Clarkson, famous for hosting the Top Gear TV series, lost about 500 pounds after someone managed to set up a direct debit transfer to the charity Diabetes UK, BBC News informed today. And all of this happened after the popular TV presenter decided to publish his bank account details into the newspaper, just to... |
8 January 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Yep, this is another data loss confirmed by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs, but this time only 6,500 people were affected. I'm starting to get used to it and I think Britons are not worried anymore, because those data losses tend to become a part of their lives. Personally, I can't imagine my persona... |
19 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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This year, the Christmas has come a bit earlier than we've expected, but with some unexpected gifts. Especially addressed to Britons: several data losses affecting millions of residents, who are now vulnerable targets of identity theft or other types of illegal activities. And this matter was caused by the UK g... |
19 December 2007
14:31 GMT |
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If you think the HMRC data loss affecting 25 million people is not enough to make you accept the fact that your information is not secure wherever it would be, then listen to this: another data loss occurred in UK, as details of about 3 million people had "gone missing from a facility in Iowa in the United States." T... |
18 December 2007
03:47 GMT |
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This week's pieces of news absolutely shocked me. I've never heard about so many data losses in such a short period of time ever! No matter they were caused by employees' negligence or by unexpected thefts, the data losses usually affected thousands of people with no fault for the leak. All of them wer... |
12 December 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Today, Symantec introduced a new release of Vontu Data Loss Prevention, which is now available to all users through the Symantec's official website. Vontu is a technology supposed to prevent data loss, using numerous Symantec-powered functions such as data loss policy management, network monitoring and preventio... |
12 December 2007
16:11 GMT |
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We should really start getting used to it, because the data loss a.k.a. stolen laptops a.k.a. lost CDs a.k.a. employees' negligences make more and more victims all around the world. After millions of people were put at risk due to major data leaks, here comes another one: today, "The Press Association" reports ... |
12 December 2007
03:27 GMT |
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Oh, God, here we go again. Another stolen laptop puts at risk the information of about 60,000 people, who requested an advice from the Citizens Advice Bureau. A public statement, published on the official page of Citizens Advice in Northern Ireland, informs the users that only the people around the Belfast area have... |
11 December 2007
10:01 GMT |
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Laptop. Theft. Lost data. Thousands of people affected. These are surely the most popular terms this season, as several officials lost their laptops containing private information about numerous persons. What the heck, man? Protect your laptops for God's sake? How hard can it be to keep an eye on a laptop, espe... |
10 December 2007
05:41 GMT |
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The recent UK trouble in which the data of about 25 million people was lost proved us that it's extremely important to keep our very important information secure and protected. But it also reminded us to backup our files since a so important data loss can affected all the data stored on our computers. However, s... |
23 November 2007
15:06 GMT |
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