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Prudential |
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Author:Breachaware |
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6th November 2012 |
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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. |
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Stoke-on-Trent City Counci |
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Author:Breachaware |
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25th October 2012 |
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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. |
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Greater Manchester Police |
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Author:Breachaware |
Date:
16th October 2012 |
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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. |
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Norwood Ravenswood Ltd |
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Author:Breachaware |
Date:
10th October 2012 |
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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. |
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Scottish Borders Council |
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Author:Breachaware |
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11th September 2012 |
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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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St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust |
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Author:Breachaware |
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12th July 2012 |
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A monetary penalty of £60,000 was issued to St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust after a vulnerable individual’s sensitive medical details were sent by post to the wrong address. |
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Welcome Financial Services Limited |
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Author:Breachaware |
Date:
5th July 2012 |
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A monetary penalty notice of £150,000 has been served to Welcome Financial Services Limited following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act. The breach led to the personal data of more than half a million customers being lost. |
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Telford & Wrekin Counci |
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Author:Breachaware |
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6th June 2012 |
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A monetary penalty for £90,000 has been served to Telford & Wrekin Council for two serious breaches of the seventh data protection principle. A Social Worker sent a core assessment report to the child’s sibling instead of the mother. The assessment contained confidential and highly sensitive personal data. Whilst investigating the first incident, a second incident was reported to the ICO involving the inappropriate disclosure of foster carer names and addresses to the children’s mother. Both children had to be re-homed. |
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London Borough of Barnet |
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Author:Breachaware |
Date:
21st May 2012 |
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A monetary penalty of £70,000 was issued to the London Borough of Barnet following the loss of sensitive information relating to 15 vulnerable children or young people, during a burglary at an employee’s home. |
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Author:Breachaware |
Date:
15th May 2012 |
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A monetary penalty of £70,000 was issued to the London Borough of Barnet following the loss of sensitive information relating to 15 vulnerable children or young people, during a burglary at an employee’s home. |
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Aneurin Bevan Health Board |
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Author:Breachaware |
Date:
30th April 2012 |
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A monetary penalty of £70,000 has been issued to the Aneurin Bevan Health Board following an incident where a sensitive report - containing explicit details relating to a patient’s health - was sent to the wrong person. |
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Lancashire Constabulary |
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Author:Breachaware |
Date:
14th March 2012 |
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A monetary penalty of £70,000 was issued to Lancashire Constabulary following the discovery of a missing person’s report containing sensitive personal information about a missing 15 year old girl. |
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Norfolk County Counci |
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Author:Breachaware |
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13th February 2012 |
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A monetary penalty of £80,000 has been issed to Norfolk County Council for disclosing information about allegations against a parent and the welfare of their child to the wrong recipient. |
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Midlothian Council |
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Author:Breachaware |
Date:
30th January 2012 |
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A monetary penalty of £140,000 was issued to Midlothian Council for disclosing sensitive personal data relating to children and their carers to the wrong recipients on five separate occasions. The penalty is the first that the ICO has served against an organisation in Scotland. |
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North Somerset Council |
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Author:BreachAware |
Date:
28th November 2011 |
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A Monetary penalty of £60,000 was issued to North Somerset Council for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act where a council employee sent five emails, two of which contained highly sensitive and confidential information about a child's serious case review, to the wrong NHS employee.
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ACS Law |
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Author:BreachAware |
Date:
10th May 2011 |
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A Monetary penalty of £1,000 was issued to Andrew Jonathan Crossley, formerly trading as solicitors firm ACS Law, for failing to keep sensitive personal information relating to around 6,000 people secure.
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Hounslow Council |
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Author:BreachAware |
Date:
8th February 2011 |
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A Monetary penalty of £70,000 was issued to Hounslow Council following the loss of an unencrypted laptop which contained personal information. Hounslow Council breached the Act by failing to have a written contract in place with Ealing Council. Hounslow Council also did not monitor Ealing Councils procedures for operating the service securely.
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Ealing Council |
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Author:BreachAware |
Date:
8th February 2011 |
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A Monetary penalty of �80,000 was issued to Ealing Council following the loss of an unencrypted laptop which contained personal information. Ealing Council breached the Data Protection Act by issuing an unencrypted laptop to a member of staff in breach of its own policies.
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Hertfordshire County Council |
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Author:BreachAware |
Date:
22nd November 2010 |
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A Monetary penalty of �100,000 was issued to Hertfordshire County Council for two serious incidents where council employees faxed highly sensitive personal information to the wrong recipients. The first case, involving child sexual abuse, was before the courts, and the second involved details of care proceedings.
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A4e |
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Author:BreachAware |
Date:
22nd November 2010 |
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A Monetary penalty of £60,000 was issued to employment services company A4e Limited for the loss of an unencrypted laptop which contained personal information relating to 24,000 people who had used community legal advice centres in Hull and Leicester.
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