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Re: Canada: Bell probes theft of personal information on 3.4 million Ont., Que. clients
From: "Brian Honan" <brian.honan () bhconsulting ie>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:53:56 -0000
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Remember though that privacy laws differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. It is possible that if this breach occurred within the European Union that the compromised data would fall under the data protection directive. Under this directive personally identifiable information can only be gathered for a specific reason, agreed to by the customer, and protected from unauthorised access. Brian Brian Honan BH Consulting Helping You Piece IT Together T: +353-1-4404065 M: +353-868114066 E: brian.honan () bhconsulting ie W: http://www.bhconsulting.ie B: http://www.bhconsulting.ie/blog Supporting Global Security Week http://www.globalsecurityweek.com This message is for the named person's use only. If you received this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and not of BH Consulting. BH Consulting is a registered trade name for BH IT Consulting Limited, Company Registration Number: 393479 with registered offices at 49 Luttrelstown Drive, Castleknock, Dublin 15. - -----Original Message----- From: dataloss-bounces () attrition org [mailto:dataloss-bounces () attrition org] On Behalf Of security curmudgeon Sent: 13 February 2008 04:15 To: dataloss () attrition org Subject: Re: [Dataloss] Canada: Bell probes theft of personal information on 3.4 million Ont., Que. clients : (Finally, stealing the equivalent of a phone book makes headlines. It : was only a matter of time...) : : http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jYxNzISSg8CH4MSvbfAo61t7 ioVQ : : Bell Canada (TSX:BCE) is trying to determine just who has seen a limited : amount personal information on some 3.4 million of its clients in Quebec : and Ontario after a Montreal man was arrested Tuesday and faces charges : of stealing the data. : : The telecommunications company said Tuesday it had recovered the stolen : data at a Montreal home but that it was fairly limited and only included : names, addresses, telephone numbers and a list of Bell services the : client subscribed to. This is where the telco needs to come clean. Name, address and phone number of listed customers is obviously not any real breach. That information of *unlisted* customers begins to be more of a concern. They also need to define "services" here. Does this include DSL service? Just POTS services like call waiting? : "There was no identity material beyond name, address and phone number," : Langton added. "(The information is) similar to what you'd find in the : white pages or a phone directory." *Similar*, which does not rule out the possibility of unlisted customers. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBR7KwI4u28IDxtc99EQLGbQCZAaND2d6iynDfnyiVH/u3PYoVil0AoL8p zhRqDVen8glOC7FON50DNZu6 =KwuB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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- Re: Canada: Bell probes theft of personal information on 3.4 million Ont., Que. clients Brian Honan (Feb 13)
- Re: Canada: Bell probes theft of personal information on 3.4 million Ont., Que. clients lyger (Feb 12)
- Re: Canada: Bell probes theft of personal information on 3.4 million Ont., Que. clients security curmudgeon (Feb 12)