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Re: UK: Standard Life customers are hit by breach in security
From: Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 21:29:10 -0400
They're just doing this so that their demands for more personal information don't seem so scary. Adam On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:58:09AM +0000, lyger wrote: | | (good thing they didn't have only 600 customers... a 50% impact rate would | have looked a lot worse in the media...) | | http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=716812007 | | STANDARD Life has admitted that up to 300 customers may have been affected | by a security breach in which personal information was sent to others by | mistake. | | The blunder, described as a "one-off error" in its information systems, | caused some customers to receive policy documents meant for others. It is | the latest in a series of data protection breaches by big companies. | | [...] | | "Less than 0.2 per cent of our valued investors have been impacted by | this. We have acted swiftly to make investors aware of the error." | | A letter explaining the error was sent to hundreds of customers over the | weekend. | | It is thought to have affected people recently applying for new ISA | policies and the data included names, addresses and policy numbers but not | personal financial information, such as income or tax codes. | | [...] | _______________________________________________ | Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) | http://attrition.org/dataloss | Tracking more than 207 million compromised records in 649 incidents over 7 years. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 207 million compromised records in 649 incidents over 7 years.
Current thread:
- UK: Standard Life customers are hit by breach in security lyger (May 08)
- Re: UK: Standard Life customers are hit by breach in security Adam Shostack (May 08)
- Re: UK: Standard Life customers are hit by breach in security Adam Shostack (May 08)
- Re: UK: Standard Life customers are hit by breach in security Adam Shostack (May 08)