Who has stolen my personal details today?
For quality entertainment, you can't beat TV commercials for large investment institutions.
They all have the same message, which is:
'These are scary times for investors, so GIVE US YOUR MONEY!
You can trust us, because we have a large building.'
What that message should be -
Here at [insert organisation], you're not just a number -
you're two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash, and another number.
Sadly, along with our money, we give them our personal details.
And the track records of many of these institutions is pathetic.
Included in this list of shame are also many Government departments.
They seem to have developed losing [our personal] information into an art form.
It's not getting any easier out there - stay diligent.
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Halifax theft exposes customer mortgage data
UK high street bank Halifax has admitted stolen documents from one of its employees contained data on 13,000 mortgage customers. The documents were in a briefcase stolen from the locked car of an employee last week and the bank yesterday started writing to affected customers, after first reporting the breach to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the police.
Read the article HERE.
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Another laptop goes AWOL
A laptop with details of 11,000 children aged between eight months and eight years has been stolen from a Nottingham hospital. The laptop was one of three taken from an office at King's Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield last week. Nottinghamshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) has now informed the families affected and police have launched an investigation.
Read the article HERE.
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Passwords Exposed By Entertainment Web Site
The list of e-mail addresses and passwords for members' Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and other accounts would turn up in the results of unrelated Google searches if those searches happened to contain at least two keywords that matched the names of Splash members.
Read the article HERE.
They all have the same message, which is:
'These are scary times for investors, so GIVE US YOUR MONEY!
You can trust us, because we have a large building.'
What that message should be -
Here at [insert organisation], you're not just a number -
you're two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash, and another number.
Sadly, along with our money, we give them our personal details.
And the track records of many of these institutions is pathetic.
Included in this list of shame are also many Government departments.
They seem to have developed losing [our personal] information into an art form.
It's not getting any easier out there - stay diligent.
==============================================
Halifax theft exposes customer mortgage data
UK high street bank Halifax has admitted stolen documents from one of its employees contained data on 13,000 mortgage customers. The documents were in a briefcase stolen from the locked car of an employee last week and the bank yesterday started writing to affected customers, after first reporting the breach to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the police.
Read the article HERE.
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Another laptop goes AWOL
A laptop with details of 11,000 children aged between eight months and eight years has been stolen from a Nottingham hospital. The laptop was one of three taken from an office at King's Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield last week. Nottinghamshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) has now informed the families affected and police have launched an investigation.
Read the article HERE.
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Passwords Exposed By Entertainment Web Site
The list of e-mail addresses and passwords for members' Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and other accounts would turn up in the results of unrelated Google searches if those searches happened to contain at least two keywords that matched the names of Splash members.
Read the article HERE.
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