CBC reports that too much information sharing went on when WorkSafeNB provided data to to Corporate Research Associates. The breach was not the polling firm’s fault, but WorkSafeNB’s, for providing details the contractor did not need and should not have been sent. WorkSafeNB has sent out more than three thousand letters of apology over a serious…
Category: Exposure
IE: 317 civil servants hit by payroll system data breach due to brain fade at PeoplePoint
Irish Times reports: Over 300 civil servants have been hit by a data breach in the civil service’s shared payroll system, involving their personal details being sent to HR departments other than their own. The breach was reported to the Data Protection Commissioner at the end of October. PeoplePoint, the shared human resources and pensions centre based…
Australian Federal Police declined to investigate hack and ransom demand?
More on the Aussie Farmers Direct breach previously noted on this site. Ryan DeSouza reports that a six-figure ransom had been demanded after the hack, and when the firm refused to pay, 5,000 customers’ information was posted online. “A couple of days ago we were able to get the list of customer details pulled…
The ‘Dox’ of More than 2,300 Government Employees by CWA Might Be Worse Than We Thought
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bichhierai reports that hackers who call themselves CWA (“Crackas With Attitude”) may have done more damage to the FBI than even they realized when they dumped information last night: On Thursday, the teenage hackers who broke into the CIA director’s personal AOL email account struck again, releasing a list of almost 2,400 names, emails and phone numbers…
Hackers who hacked CIA Director’s personal e-mail claim hack of FBI database
Nathan Ingraham reports: Earlier this year, a hacking group broke into the personal email account of CIA director John Brenner and published a host of sensitive attachments that it got its hands on (yes, Brenner should not have been using his AOL email address for CIA business). Now, Wired reports the group has hit a much more sensitive and presumably secure target:…
UK: Probe after 1,000 tenants caught up in data security breach
Stuart Greer reports: A social landlord has admitted a data security breach where private information of almost 1,000 residents’ was released. A member of staff from the Customer Experience Team at Peaks and Plains Housing Trust accidentally sent a mass email to 994 residents on Wednesday morning, but failed to use the ‘blind carbon copy’…