Tom Young reports: A civil servant was imprisoned on Friday for accessing 2,500 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) records and diverting other people’s tax credit claims to his own bank accounts. John Brian Agdomar, 42, used his job at the DWP as a cover to illegally access records to obtain personal information on a…
Category: Breach Types
Stolen laptops contain some private student information
Dave Aeikens reports: Two laptop computers stolen from Roosevelt Early Childhood Center contained private student information, St. Cloud school officials said Thursday. The laptops contain information about student behavioral issues and include names, internal identification numbers and the number of discipline referrals. Addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers are not listed on the computers….
Misdirected Spyware Infects Ohio Hospital
Bob McMillan reports: It was a bad idea from the start, but even as bad ideas go, this one went horribly wrong. A a 38-year-old Avon Lake, Ohio, man is set to plead guilty to federal charges after spyware he allegedly meant to install on the computer of a woman he’d had a relationship with…
U. of Florida reports breach
Posted by the University of Florida: In August, the University’s Privacy Office was notified of a privacy breach after the discovery of an unprotected computer file containing 34 names and 25 Social Security numbers. We believe the personal information belongs to trainers working with the Florida Traffic and Bicycle Safety Education program in 2006. The…
Kavaklov sentenced for major ATM skimming operation
Yordan Kavaklov, 29, of Bulgaria, was sentenced yesterday by Senior United States District Judge Willis B. Hunt, Jr. to serve over 4 years in federal prison on multiple felony charges for conspiring to steal the bank debit card numbers and passwords of over 200 individuals through the use of a skimming device the defendant connected…
UK: Probe after civil servant details given out with FOI
The Scottish government is under investigation by the UK information tsar after it mistakenly provided confidential details about civil servants to the Sunday Herald. Internal documents with individual computer ID and phone numbers were accidentally included in papers about energy policy released last week after a freedom of information request. The government has been accused…