The Aneurin Bevan Health Board (ABHB) has been served a monetary penalty by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The Welsh health board has been issued with a penalty of £70,000 after a sensitive report was sent to the wrong person. According to the ICO’s undertaking, the error occurred when a letter containing a detailed psychological [...]
07 Oct 2011 |
Two Schools Have Laptops Stolen.Both schools were victims of a security breach that resulted in a laptop falling into the wrong hands. The laptops both had insufficient security to prevent the information held from being extracted for the thief’s use. As these where educators laptops they contained sensitive information on pupils such as there names, age, address and potentially there health. Holy Park School in [...] 
|
31 Mar 2010 |
ICO Data Loss Penalties to rise to £500,000 next monthAs from April 6th 2010 the penalties for breaking the for breaking the provisions of the Data Protection Act (DPA) will increase dranmatically. The ICO will then have the power to fine organisations up to £500,000 which is a massive increase from the previous £5000. Penalties will be incurred when “data controller has seriously contravened [...]
|
