Sarah Stultz reports: Allegations of a data breach within the Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office were not substantiated, according to the county’s administrator on Wednesday. Administrator John Kluever and information technology staff investigated the possibility that someone was inappropriately viewing open investigation files and disseminating parts of those files in the public. The allegation came in…
Category: Exposure
Again? Irish Water sends customer’s private details to the wrong person
TheJournal.ie reports: A Dublin-based businessman has accused Irish Water staff of a catalogue of “shocking” errors which led up to his personal information being emailed to the wrong person. Read more on TheJournal.ie
Dutch police investigate security breach after confidential files are found via Google
DutchNews.nl reports: Dozens of confidential police files have ended up in the public domain following an internet security leak, the NRC says on Wednesday. The files concern murders, armed robberies, gangs and suspect jihadis. The information was easy to find using internet search engine Google, the paper says. Police have confirmed the leak and taken…
Northern Ireland website leaves front door open, spills users’ data
Jennifer Baker reports: The creators of this Irish government website may be fluent in Irish, but they are distinctly unversed in data security. The Líofa (Fluent) website – a Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure project – suffered not so much a data breach as a data giveaway! Users’ personal information such as names, addresses, emails and…
Connecticut Department of Labor confirms privacy breach; 64 individuals’ details exposed
WTNH reports: Ohan Karagozian is a licensed optician who says he filed a claim with the Connecticut Department of Labor for help in getting some back wages from a former employer. He says what he got back in the mail from the department shocked him. “I started looking through the folders and I did not…
Bits ‘n pieces
Add Alliance Workplace Solutions to the too-long list of companies who have reported laptops with personal information stolen from an employee’s car. Anderson & Murison report that the names, addresses, dates of birth, and driver’s license numbers of propsective insureds were exposed online between June 2014 and July 18th due to the installation of an additional firewall (ironic,…