Robert Booth reports: A detailed membership list of the British National party containing names, addresses and telephone numbers was published on the internet this morning. The list, which contains thousands of names, was published on Wikileaks, a website that purports to be a clearing house for information to be published anonymously. [link to list inserted…
Category: Breaches
BNP hit by second leak of ‘members database’
Robert Booth, Helen Pidd and Paul Lewis report: The BNP is bracing itself for potentially fresh embarrassment tomorrow when details of the party’s UK-wide rank and file membership are expected to be posted on the internet. The list, which purports to be a snapshot of the party’s support in April this year, includes the names,…
Jury’s $1.8 million verdict a call for privacy rights
Ameet Sachdev reports: In the summer of 2005 Kathy Lawlor’s dad showed her a white envelope he retrieved from his neighbor’s garbage can, deposited there by a man Lawlor suspected had been following her. “Probe” was typed in the return address field. Next to it was a picture of an eye that looked to Lawlor…
FDIC employee leaked confidential data
Merikay Wootton, 63, Lenexa, Kan., has been charged with unlawfully disclosing confidential information while she was an employee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The crime is alleged to have occurred from Aug. 28, 2008, through July 10, 2009, in Overland Park, Kan. According to the indictment, Wootton was working as a loan officer for…