Charles Walmsley reports: Sussex-based Prosperity IFA director Simon Munday is set to pull his clients from the Ascentric platform after a technology error allowed one of his clients to access another adviser’s client portfolios. Munday (pictured) has 129 clients with around £10 million of assets under advice on the platform but will move them onto other…
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Feds round up 50 suspects in latest ID theft-tax fraud sweep in South Florida
Jay Weaver reports: Federal agents arrested about 50 people on identity theft and tax fraud charges across South Florida over the past week, including a couple of suspects accused of breaking into an Internal Revenue Service database to steal supposedly secret information from taxpayers and file fraudulent refund claims in their names. Read more on Miami…
GA: IT staffer fired in data breach affecting 6 million Georgia voters
Kristina Torres reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp will issue an alert this afternoon formally notifying more than 6 million Georgia voters that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, were illegally released last month by his office. The decision to send the notification comes two days after his office was alerted…
Federal judge dismisses indictment against auxiliary cop charged with hacking into NYPD database
John Marzulli reports: A federal judge tossed an indictment Wednesday against an NYPD auxiliary cop charged with hacking into a police computer in Brooklyn to obtain traffic accident information, the Daily News has learned. Yehuda Katz is off the hook on computer fraud charges after prosecutors acknowledged the government recently became aware of information “suggesting…
Ca: Prince Edward Island’s Workers Compensation Board reports 47 privacy breaches in 4 years
CBC News reports: P.E.I.’s information and privacy commissioner is recommending changes to prevent breaches at the Workers Compensation Board after 47 breaches to personal privacy were reported in a four-year period. Privacy Commissioner Karen Rose started investigating after a WCB client complained in 2010 some of his medical information was mailed to an unrelated third…
AU: Taxpayer records exposed by serious ATO, myGov security flaw
Hannah Francis reports: Australians’ private tax records were left unsecured thanks to a serious flaw in how the tax office’s online services connect with myGov, in the latest of a series of security bungles related to the federal government’s online services. Experts have raised concerns over the handling of IT security issues by the Australian Taxation Office and…