AICD data theft leaves members cold

In fairness, like Sony's recent multiple hackings, the AICD is a victim of crime, not a perpetrator. I might be more sympathetic if I'd heard about it from them, and moreover so if I could understand why they felt it necessary to store my date of birth. As a consumer it's often difficult to opt out of providing information that is evidently unnecessary to perform the transaction in question. Does my hairdresser need my date of birth? Does every Web 2.0 service need to know where my father was born or my mother's maiden name. When they store that, on their dinky little networks, or worse on forms left lying around reception, how secure is that data?

The AICD member data

Colvin suggests that much of the AICD member data was openly available nevertheless that doesn't excuse it being left on a PC in other words than on a network. For many years I've put in a fake date of birth where I felt the question was irrelevant and the organisation was unlikely to have effective data protection procedures in place. I had assumed better from the AICD. My mistake.

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