Brent Begin reports: About 2,400 Medi-Cal recipients in San Francisco had their names, Social Security numbers and other identifying information breached as part of an employee dispute at Human Services Agency of San Francisco, officials said. A former city employee, considering legal action against The City after being fired from the agency that disperses welfare…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: Tayside Police officer admits leaking sensitive data
A police officer has admitted leaking sensitive information to her lover who then tipped off a suspect in a criminal investigation. Police constable Karen Howie, 34, who is married to another officer, has since resigned from Tayside Police. She admitted two charges of perverting the course of justice at Dundee Sheriff Court. Her co-accused, Neil…
FL: FBI to investigate Lake Wales fraud case
Phil Attinger reports: Lake Wales police have turned their city bank account fraud investigation over to the FBI. Sgt. Mark Stroup, chief local investigator on the case, said the Lake Wales Police Department made the decision last week to have the Federal Bureau of Investigations take the lead in the case, in light of the…
AU: CityCycle in privacy breach
Cameron Atfield reports: Brisbane’s CityCycle bike hire scheme has been embroiled in a massive privacy breach, with the email addresses of all its subscribers distributed in an email this afternoon. The addresses of 1306 CityCycle users were all included in the “to” field of an email sent to subscribers at 5.12pm today. The email was…
LA: Teen charged with computer crimes
A Deville teen was arrested Jan. 29 and was charged with several computer crimes, said Rapides Parish Sheriff Chuck Wagner. Christopher Anthony Dauzat Jr., 17, was arrested by the CyberCrimes section of the Rapides Sheriff’s Office Detective Division and charged with computer tampering, computer fraud, cyberstalking and extortion. The charges stem from the electronic hijacking…
Credit Report Resellers Settle FTC Charges; Security Failures Allowed Hackers to Access Consumers’ Personal Information
As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing campaign to protect consumers’ personal information, three companies whose business is reselling consumers’ credit reports have agreed to settle FTC charges that they did not take reasonable steps to protect consumers’ personal information, failures that allowed computer hackers to access that data. The settlements require the companies…