Tory warns of fraud after St Albans council laptop containing 14,673 signatures is stolen (From St Albans & Harpenden Review)
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Tory warns of fraud after St Albans council laptop containing 14,673 signatures is stolen
3:27pm Monday 16th November 2009 in
PEOPLE whose personal details have been stolen from the district council could easily fall victim to bank or credit card fraud, Tory group leader Julian Daly has warned.
The Review revealed today how the names, addresses, dates of birth and signatures of 14,673 people who applied for a postal vote are on a laptop stolen from the council offices.
Revealing that he and members of his family are aming the victims, Councillor Daly told the Review: "We have to find out why this sort of information was on a PC without added security.
"They say there are two levels of security but how good are they?
"The thief has everything short of bank account details.
"Certainly this could be used to apply for a bank account or a credit card in a false name.
"This comes straight after the parking ticket fiasco.
"This council is beginning to look accident prone."
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Simon Grover
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8:06pm Mon 16 Nov 09
brownr24
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1:47pm Tue 17 Nov 09
RomanBath
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9:32pm Tue 17 Nov 09
brownr24 wrote:I would suggest that everyone involved should register for CIFAS protective registration in the first instance. I would then follow this up by lodging a formal complaint against SADC, using their own complaints procedure, and request that the cost of the CIFAS registration is refunded by the Council. If they won't pay up, let the complaint go through each stage until it reaches the Local Government Ombudsman. (you can't complain to the Omnudsman first). The Ombudsman would have to take notice if flooded with thousands of complaints.
This under complacency and incompendence of SADC is shocking. I've received the letter this morning and the tone is clearly unhelpful. As a first step SADC should pay for everybody involved to have CIFAS protective registration for a year at £13.80 (www.cifas.org.uk).
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3:46pm Mon 16 Nov 09