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July 2012 Welcome Financial Services Limited was issued a penalty of £150,000.  The Lender lost two back-up tapes containing the names, addresses and payment histories of 600,000 clients as well as the names and addresses of another 800,000 clients.  The tapes also contained past and present employee information. The tapes went missing from the firm’s […]

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June 2012 The Belfast Health and Social Care (BHSC) Trust have been fined £225,000 for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act. Thousands of patients and staffs sensitive and personal data was placed at risk. The information included an array of medical records, scans and x-rays, staff records and payslips. In April 2007 six […]

Read More… from The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Breach the Data Protection Act

June 2012 Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has been served with the highest monetary penalty, £325,000, to be issued by the Information Commissioners Office thus far. The NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act, placing tens of thousands of patients and employees highly sensitive data at risk.  Data including details of patients medical […]

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