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NSW driver’s licence data stolen in Accellion breach

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Dissent

Justin Hendry reports: Driver’s licence details were among the personal information stolen from Transport for NSW in the Accellion data breach last year, iTnews can reveal. It has also emerged that at least 500 customers and employees of the agency were impacted in the incident, some of which are only now being notified. TfNSW confirmed it…

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Dallas IT worker erased police files by accident, didn’t have enough training, report says

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Dissent

Everton Bailey Jr. reports: A former Dallas IT worker fired after deleting millions of police files last year while trying to move them from online storage didn’t have enough training to do the job properly, according to an independent investigation of the incident. Despite his job primarily being focused on working with Commvault, the software…

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UK: Cop appears at Hamilton Sheriff Court on trial over data protection breach

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Dissent

A police officer is on trial for accessing records related to an investigation into her alleged driving offenses. Rory Cassidy reports: A police officer has gone on trial accused of illegally accessing her own case file. Acting Sergeant Victoria Robb is said to have logged on to a computer and looked at details of driving offences she allegedly committed. Robb, 31, went…

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Report: Missouri Governor’s Office Responsible for Teacher Data Leak

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports on a follow-up to the case of Missouri’s Governor Parsons tried to sue a journalist and others who had responsibly disclosed and reported on a data leak by the state. The data leak first came to public attention in October, 2021 when Josh Renaud reported on the exposure and the steps the…

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Sg: Ex-deputy lead of MOH data unit jailed for leaking daily Covid-19 case numbers in 2020

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Dissent

Low Youjin reports from Singapore: Despite having signed an undertaking to safeguard official information, a former deputy lead from a data management unit of the Ministry of Health (MOH) chose to leak classified Covid-19 information to members of a chat group on multiple occasions before it was officially announced to the public. Zhao Zheng’s attitude towards…

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NY: Nassau notifies 209 workers their confidential personal data may have been breached by employees

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Dissent

Scott Eidler reports: Nassau officials have notified more than 200 current and former employees in the Assessment Department their confidential personal data may have been breached after some co-workers last year gained unauthorized access to human resources information about department workers. In a letter Thursday to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and county legislators, Technology…

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