A non-encrypted laptop computer stolen from a Health Service Executive (HSE) office contains sensitive personal financial data on people who have approached community welfare officers seeking assistance. The laptop containing the data was one of 15 computers stolen from HSE offices in Roscommon town at the weekend. […] One of the two non-encrypted laptops contained…
Category: Government Sector
NZ: Breach confirms TestSafe privacy fears
Jodi Yeats of New Zealand Doctor Online reports: A data breach in Auckland’s controversial regional lab tests repository has confirmed health sector fears about regional databases. A phone call from a patient in late May alerted Auckland regional DHBs to privacy breaches in Auckland’s controversial regional community laboratory results repository, TestSafe, affecting 150 patients. The…
Leaked Calgary police document causes worries all around
Stephane Massinon of the Calgary Herald reports: The fact an internal police document that lists FOB Killers gang members was found in a rival gang’s possession drew concern from the province’s top police officer, the privacy commission and gang experts. When police raided a Heritage Pointe house allegedly tied to the FOB gang in December…
IL: Missing state computers may have contained confidential information
On June 11, the Illinois Auditor General issued its audit of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The auditors found that: The Department was not able to locate computer equipment and did not adequately plan, coordinate, and verify the transfer of EDP equipment to the Department of Central Management Services (CMS). The Department conducts…
UK: Nightwatchman left tax files centre open and unguarded while he sneaked off for a burger
Stephen Stewart of The Daily Record reports: A hungry security guard left highly sensitive files at risk while he went in search of a McDonald’s. The nightwatchman quit his post at the Customs centre in Dundee and propped open a door so he could get back into the building as he had no keys. […]…
FL: Clerks fired for using classified database as Match.com
The Associated Press reports that Carol Bass and Helen Lehman, both records clerks at the Fort Myers Police Department, were fired in March after reportedly misusing a classified search database to look up people one of them was considering dating. It’s nice to read more reports of people actually being fired for inappropriate use of…