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Personal data of 380,000 welfare recipients stolen
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:43:45 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0812/1218477342243.html THE DEPARTMENT of Social and Family Affairs is contacting 380,000 social welfare recipients after it emerged their personal details were stored on a laptop computer which was stolen more than a year ago. About 100,000 of the records contained bank account details of welfare recipients. Information relating to these welfare recipients was stored on a computer used by the Comptroller and Auditor General at a Department of Social and Family Affairs office on Dublin's Pearse Street in April 2007. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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