[Dataloss] fringe: Classified Hong Kong "watch-list" leaked on internet

[security curmudgeon]

[The term "travel document information" is vague. If this meant passport
  information, this would qualify for inclusion in DLDOS for example. -  jericho]


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By Sahil Nagpal
TopNews.in
May 9th, 2008

Hong Kong - A government investigation was underway Friday after it was 
revealed that confidential files from the Immigration Department had been 
mistakenly leaked on to the internet.

The list, which contained a list of the names of people for officers to 
watch, plus travel document information and travel records, has been 
available on the internet since Monday through a file-sharing programme 
called "Foxy."

The blunder occurred after a newly-recruited immigration officer working 
at the Lok Ma Chau border point took home some old classified files to 
study without authorisation.

[..]

Earlier this week, banking giant HSBC was forced to apologise to customers 
after it admitted it had lost the data of 159,000 accounts from a Hong 
Kong branch.

The data was held on a internet server which is understood to have gong 
missing in April from the Kwun Tong branch of the bank while it was 
undergoing renovation last month.

[..]

In one case, a USB flashdrive containing the files of 10,000 patients from 
the Prince of Wales Hospital was lost after a hospital worker who was 
transferring the data left it in a taxi.

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