Travelodge has told customers who’ve received spam email that the company has not lost their credit card details, which is nice. The letter said: Our main priority is to ensure the security of our customers’ data, which is why I wanted to make you aware that a small number of you may have received a […]
Travelodge is investigating its IT systems to discover how customer email addresses have gone astray. Several other customers have blogged of similar experiences, here’s Shepy’s post on the apparent hack. Either LulzSec has taken a step down from hacking the US Senate and the CIA to target the motel chain, or Travelodge has been hit […]
With all the data breaches in the news lately, it’s hard to know whether you’ve been affected. You could just change all your passwords after every reported breach – just in case. You could insist on tokens for everything. (Of course, that might raise additional concerns) You could stop using the internet entirely. Or you […]
A London health authority has admitted losing a laptop which contains 8.6 million health records. The machine was lost three weeks ago, but has only just been reported missing to police and the Information Commissioner’s Office. We’ve asked North Central London health board why it needed to store 8.63 million health records on an unsecure […]
The House of Commons’ perennial theft problem has become increasingly high tech, with sporadic thefts of computers in recent years turning into a veritable run on laptops, according to the latest figures. In a Commons answer last week, John Thurso detailed cases of theft on the Commons Estate over the last five years, for the […]
A local authority has signed an undertaking to improve the security of the personal data it holds after information about six vulnerable home support clients was stolen from a worker, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said. North Lanarkshire Council’s guidance on how workers should use, transport and dispose of sensitive documents was “inadequate”, the […]