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Sensitive personal information could have been on a council’s website for 11 years, it has been claimed. Documents containing people’s names, addresses and medical conditions were publicly available on Ceredigion Council’s website on Thursday. The man who notified the council of the breach said he reported the same data on the council’s website in 2007. […]

Yahoo has announced that it will encrypt all user information carried in its data centres in response to the accusations that the company gave the US government access to these facilities. CEO Marissa Mayer announced the changes in a post on her Tumblr account: “We’ve worked hard over the years to earn our users’ trust and […]

UK supermarket Morrisons is facing a massive payout to staff after losing the first data leak class action in the UK. It comes after Andrew Skelton, a senior internal auditor at the retailer’s Bradford headquarters, leaked employee data online in 2014. Last year, a court ruled the firm was liable for his actions. The company appealed the […]

Heathrow Airport has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for “serious” data protection failings. It comes after a staff member lost a USB stick last October containing “sensitive personal data”, which was later found by a member of the public. Reports at the time claimed this included the Queen’s security and travel arrangements, […]

ISLAMABAD: The purpose of Asia Pacific Group (APG) deliberation with Pakistan was to gauge the country’s compliance on key Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) framework. In a statement issued here, Ministry of Finance stated that Pakistan is passing through two separate processes one is FATF Action Plan and another is regular […]

The hacked system was connected to the Healthcare.gov website, where the general public can sign up for healthcare coverage. Hackers have got access to personal data belonging to 75,000 people in a breach of government health insurance system used by insurance agents and brokers to help customers sign up for healthcare plans in the US, […]

Europol and the European Banking Federation launch awareness campaign on 7 most common online financial scams Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the European Banking Federation and their partners from the public and private sector are kicking off today the #CyberScams awareness campaign as part of the European Cyber Security Month Over the next week, law […]

OECD ‘Black List’ & CRS warning will impact a number of area from onboarding questions through to data capture. The OECD, on 16 October 2018, published a report on countries offering the Residence and Citizenship by Investment (CBI/RBI) schemes. The OECD has analysed over 100 CBI/RBI and identified a number of schemes that potentially pose […]