Tim Healy reports: A breach of privacy action brought by Nikki Pelley, the girlfriend of wife-killer Joe O’Reilly, against the Irish Sun newspaper has been settled, the High Court heard today. Ms Pelley had sought an injunction, damages and declarations against the newspaper over the publication on March 19 and March 21, 2011, of private…
Category: Breaches
Can a huge privacy breach really have no consequences?
I’m absolutely mind-boggled by an Israeli data theft that I’ve been covering over on DataBreaches.net. The gist of the situation is that a programmer allegedly copied a database with the details of millions of Israelis. Over the years, that database was shared and integrated with at least 11 other databases, shared some more, and became…
Haringey housing association accused of data breach bungle
Remember when a council turned over unredacted neighbor complaints to the very people being complained about? It’s happened again, although this time on a smaller scale. Flora Drury reports: A Haringey housing association made a neighbours’ dispute worse after handing a bundle of confidential complaints to the very neighbour they were related to, it is…
Ca: Voters list privacy breach occurred, Alward says
A serious privacy breach has been discovered with the New Brunswick voters list, Premier David Alward informed the legislative assembly on Wednesday morning. Alward referred to the privacy breach as a “serious incident.” He called it a “human error.” Alward told the legislature that Elections NB distributed a computer disc containing private information about voters,…