Janine Anderson reports: Personal, confidential information from more than 110,000 people who sold homes in 2011 was hidden inside a Wisconsin Department of Revenue report used by real estate and appraisal organizations. The DOR has ask those organizations to destroy and replace the report, which was posted online for download from April 5 to July…
Category: Government Sector
EPA security breach exposes personal information of 8,000 people
Jill R. Aitoro reports: A computer security breach at the Environmental Protection Agency exposed the Social Security numbers and banking information of nearly 8,000 people, most of them current employees, the EPA confirmed. The agency wouldn’t say whether the breach involved or affected any government contractors but told the Washington Business Journal in a statement…
Elections Ontario data loss victims could top four million
Howard Solomon reports: The number of Canadians who could be victims of one of the country’s biggest losses of personal data could hit four million, according to a privacy official. Ann Cavoukian, privacy commissioner for the province of Ontario, said Tuesday that is the number of records that might be compromised in the loss of…
IL: Court documents left in plain view
From the aw-c’mon-already-folks dept., Cynthia M. Ellis reports: Officials said they are changing how they dispose of public records after court documents were found in a recycling bin earlier this week behind the Madison County Wood River Facility. A Telegraph reporter received information Monday night about files found in an open bin behind the county…
Prison workers settle lawsuit
Anthony Skeens reports a settlement in a lawsuit that I don’t recall seeing before: A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against the state for exposing employee personnel information to Pelican Bay State Prison inmates. The settlement last week came after five years of litigation stemming from two incidents in 2006 when the prison…
TSP head expresses regret over cyberattack
Kellie Lunney reports that the recent TSP breach has inspired at least one Senator to try to require all federal agencies to have a breach notification policy in place. You’d have thought they would have one already, wouldn’t you, but apparently not…. The head of the Thrift Savings Plan expressed regret on Tuesday over not…