More on that case out of Ouachita Parish first reported in October 2011. Ouachita Parish Sheriff Royce Toney must take a leave of absence from his position following his arrest Friday by federal officials. Toney was arrested around 10 a.m. at his Courthouse Annex office without incident following an investigation by the federal officials that…
Category: Government Sector
UK: Cheshire East Council fined £80,000 after e-mail, sent insecurely, disseminated to unintended recipients
Cheshire East Council has been ordered to pay a monetary penalty of £80,000 for failing to take appropriate measures to ensure the security and appropriateness of disclosure when emailing personal information, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The serious breach of the Data Protection Act occurred in May 2011 when a council employee was…
NY: Another response to a FOI request discloses Social Security numbers
From LoHud.com, a report involving the city of Rye, New York: City officials are notifying employees that some workers’ Social Security numbers were mistakenly disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information Law request and that the city was seeking legal assurance that the information would not be passed on. City Manager Scott Pickup did…
Firms prosecuted over welfare data
Elaine Edwards reports: Three large insurance companies have pleaded guilty to illegally using social welfare information on individuals which they obtained through a private investigator. FBD, Zurich and Travelers Insurance all pleaded guilty to 10 sample charges each after they were prosecuted for breaches of the Data Protection Act. The prosecutions followed a complaint from…
Update: Texas pays for data breach
Kelley Shannon provides an update on one of the biggest breaches in 2011: The taxpayer tab for individual credit monitoring after a data breach in Comptroller Susan Combs’ office has topped $600,000, and Combs’ campaign is paying extra to resolve routine credit glitches in some cases. Though investigations continue into the data exposure revealed in…
Mobile Hack Update
Here’s a fuller version of the Associated Press report on a breach previously reported on this blog: … Mobile city spokeswoman Barbara Drummond said Utah authorities alerted officials Thursday night that hackers may be targeting the city. She told The Associated Press that the city shut down its computers to avoid the attack and that…