RTÉ News reports: Former Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has begun an appeal against a decision of the Data Protection Commissioner that he breached the Data Protection Act. The Commissioner found Mr Shatter breached the act by disclosing information about Independent TD Mick Wallace on RTÉ’s Prime Time programme last year. Lawyers for the former…
Month: November 2014
MD: IRS employee not guilty of inadvertent disclosures
There’s an update on a breach first disclosed in March that involved an IRS employee who took data with home and uploaded it to his unsecured home network, where it was discovered by a security firm. It seems that the employee had subsequently been charged criminally in the breach, but has been found not guilty. Jim McElhatton…
CORRECTION: NO Nationwide Insurance breach
CORRECTION: For some reason, an OLD news story showed up in my feed. There has been no new breach involving Nationwide Insurance. Original post deleted with apologies to Nationwide.
Firms at serious risk of data loss through file sharing and unintended exposure
Everything old is new again? Warwick Ashford reports: Businesses are at serious risk of data loss and compliance violations due to risky file-sharing practices, a study by the Ponemon Institute has revealed. Business leaders are failing to respond to the escalating risk of ungoverned file sharing and regular breaches of security policies by staff, according to the study commissioned…
Security Breach Gives Access To Users PlayStation Network Data – Researcher
Alexis writes: A researcher in security just discovered what seems to be a rather critical breach in Sony’s PlayStation Network. With SQL injection, it is apparently possible to access users data. A 20 years old Austrian hacker, Aria Akhavan, discovered a breach in the PlayStation Network website. According to Golem.de, the hacker has warned Sony…
CA: Former ABEO Employee Sentenced To Prison In Identity Theft Case
Reon Jordan, a former medical billing clerk at ABEO who was charged with misusing patient information, has been sentenced to four years and four months in state prison, and also ordered to pay $18,015 in restitution. CBS Los Angeles reports that Jordan pleaded no contest to one felony count each of grand theft, second-degree commercial burglary and identity…