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Employee snooping in IRS database: it’s like looking people up on Google or Facebook – defense attorney

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Dissent

Are cases of access in excess of authorization involving federal employees snooping in databases treated too lightly? Levi Pulkkinen reports on a case where some may think that a federal employee who misused access to the IRS database got off too lightly: An IRS worker accused of using the agency’s service database to snoop on her…

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UK: Police officer on trial for using files to vet one of his wife’s tenants

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Dissent

A police officer has gone on trial accused of using a police station computer to vet one of his wife’s tenants. Harry To, a constable with Fife Constabulary, is said to have accessed the force’s “Crimefile” computerised recording system without authority on seven occasions. Read more on STV. Long-time readers realize that this is not…

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Rubio’s Warns Shareholders And Workers Compensation Claimants That Their Data Were Stolen From Auditor’s Car

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Dissent

If you follow me on Twitter (@pogowasright) or follow @datalossdb, you’ll know that over the past few months, I’ve started just sending some items directly into the database without reporting them on this blog.  A few nights ago, I added a bunch to the database – some of which I tweeted – after discovering that…

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Cigna to notify some insured that employee e-mailed their names and SSN home

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Dissent

Now that California is posting breach notes on its site, I’m finding out about a slew of breaches that I did not find through other sources.  Of the 27 breaches they’ve posted since the beginning of this year, I didn’t know about 16 of them: They’ve now all been entered in DataLossDB.org.  One just added…

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UK: Web exposure breach at Toshiba last summer revealed … today?

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Dissent

Toshiba Information Systems (UK) have breached the Data Protection Act (DPA) after the personal details of 20 competition entrants were compromised by a security flaw on their website, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO was informed by a member of the public in September last year that the personal details of individuals…

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Computer specialist who had warned Iranian banks about vulnerability, hacks and dumps 3 million accounts to make his point

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Dissent

Is it just me, or have these folks missed the point? From The Tehran Times: A computer specialist, who used to work for a PSP (payment service provider) company which offers a number of Iranian banks services for accepting electronic payments, has hacked accounts of three million bank customers to show the vulnerability of the…

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