There’s probably some lessons to be learned from this one… Justin Zaremba reports: A retired Parsippany police captain and the township have agreed to meet with a court-appointed computer forensic expert to facilitate the return of nearly 960,000 police department documents that municipal officials allege were stolen and deleted from municipal servers by the captain….
Category: Government Sector
UK: PSNI to pay £20k in damages to Special Branch officer whose details were stolen in Castlereagh police station raid
It was a worrying breach, and a good reminder that some breaches can literally put people’s lives at risk: A retired Special Branch officer whose details were stolen in the break-in at a top security base in Belfast is to receive just over £20,000 in damages, a High Court judge ruled today. Mr Justice Horner…
Saskatchewan highways worker suspended for privacy breach
Barb Pacholik reports: While snooping in SGI’s database earned a Highways Ministry traffic officer a suspension, the province’s privacy watchdog wants a longterm plan to prevent such breaches. “We take this very seriously. This is not acceptable behaviour. That’s why the individual was suspended for 20 days without pay,” Highways Minister Don McMorris told reporters…
NYS Comptroller finds IT security deficits in towns of Babylon and Salina
Every so often I post audit reports from the NYS Comptroller’s Office. Last week, the office posted two completed audits worth noting here: The Town of Babylon was audited for the period January 1, 2011 — July 31, 2012. In addition to significant concerns about the town’s financial health conditions and other matters, one of…
CA: Active-duty Army reservists victims of identity theft; 2 men arrested
Adolfo Flores reports: Two men were arrested in connection with the identity theft of U.S. Army Reserve officers who were on active duty in Afghanistan, authorities said. Mauro Cortez, 25, and Rigoberto Cortez, 29, were arrested Wednesday after the Los Angeles County Identity Theft Task Force served a search warrant at a home in Pomona, according to the…
UK: An undertaking serves as a reminder that all employees need to be trained on data protection
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) notes that an Undertaking has been signed by the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, following an incident in which restricted information about 257 employees was disclosed on its intranet in error. The incident occurred in January of 2013 when a spreadsheet with details on employees who had not signed…