Okay, this is not a great headline to wake up to. The Jerusalem Post reports: Information was used to create searchable database with sensitive information of every Israeli, living and deceased; computer technician put the database on the Internet for anyone in the world to access. A contract worker from the Ministry of Labor and…
Category: Government Sector
Anonymous and Antisec Attack Law Enforcement Websites
Quinn Norton reports: Anonymous and Antisec factions dumped files on the net Friday detailing data from the computer systems of multiple law enforcement agencies and a law enforcement vendor, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, and the Baldwin County Sheriff’s office in Alabama. […] The notice references a 600mb data dump…
UK: 100 private documents accidentally published on police website
Martin Williams writes: Privacy breaches by the Metropolitan Police have left more than 100 documents online which contain confidential information. Names, email addresses and employment details are among the private data which can still be viewed on the Met’s website. Police publish all their responses to questions in an online disclosure log. But staff are routinely failing to…
Dumfries and Galloway Council gets rap on the knuckles and undertaking for web exposure breach
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Dumfries and Galloway Council breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally publishing a spreadsheet containing the names, salaries and dates of birth of nearly 900 current and former employees on their website, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The personal information – which was mistakenly disclosed as part of…
Top Tory ‘lost voters’ personal info’ days before ID fraud week
Anna Leach reports: Just days before the start of National Identity Fraud Prevention Week on Monday, the Prime Minister’s chief policy advisor Oliver Letwin has been snapped binning what appear to be documents containing personal information in a public park. The discarded documents are said to include the addresses of Letwin’s constituents in West Dorset,…
Social Security kept silent about private data breach
Thomas Hargrove writes: The Social Security Administration has failed to inform tens of thousands of Americans that it accidentally released their names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers in an electronic database widely used by U.S. business groups. The federal agency has kept silent about a potentially harmful security breach of the personal data…