Hackers recently accessed the details of 500,000 individuals considering cosmetic surgery, The Guardian reports. The UK’s Harley Medical Group said it believes the hack was an attempt to extort money from the company, and the information includes potential clients’ names, addresses and telephone numbers. Also in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office has said a "series of errors" by Wokingham Borough Council led to the delivery of a record "with no consideration given to its content." Meanwhile, French computer hardware manufacturer LaCie is notifying customers their personal information may have been compromised after hackers used malware to infiltrate transaction data from its website. Customers who bought products between March 2013 and March 2014 may have been affected. Meanwhile, in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission is investigating a breach at Cork Institute of Technology where applicants were “given portfolio assessment marks of other applicants instead of receiving just their own result.”
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