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  Prudential
       
  Author:Breachaware Date: 6th November 2012 Read full article
  A monetary penalty of £50,000 was issued to Prudential after a mix-up over the administration of two customers’ accounts led to tens of thousands of pounds, meant for an individual’s retirement fund, ending up in the wrong account.

 
  Stoke-on-Trent City Counci
       
  Author:Breachaware Date: 25th October 2012 Read full article
  A monetary penalty of £120,000 was issued to Stoke-on-Trent City Council following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act that led to sensitive information about a child protection legal case being emailed to the wrong person.

 
  Greater Manchester Police
       
  Author:Breachaware Date: 16th October 2012 Read full article
  A monetary penalty of £150,000 was issued to Greater Manchester Police after the theft of a memory stick containing sensitive personal data from an officer’s home. The device, which had no password protection, contained details of more than a thousand people with links to serious crime investigations.

 
  Norwood Ravenswood Ltd
       
  Author:Breachaware Date: 10th October 2012 Read full article
  A monetary penalty of £70,000 was issued to Norwood Ravenswood Ltd after highly sensitive information about the care of four young children was lost after being left outside a London home.

 
  Bank Cashier
       
  Author:Breachaware Date: 13th September 2012 Read full article
  A bank cashier yesterday pleaded guilty to using her position to access illegally the personal details of a sex attack victim. The cashier’s husband had been convicted of carrying out the attack and was serving time in jail.

 
  Scottish Borders Council
       
  Author:Breachaware Date: 11th September 2012 Read full article
  A monetary penalty of £250,000 was issued to Scottish Borders Council after former employees’ pension records were found in an over-filled paper recycle bank in a supermarket car park.


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