When DataBreaches said, “Send in the lawyers” to sue Musk, she was thinking of personal injury lawyers who handle data breach litigation. But 14 state attorneys general may be even better. From NYS Attorney General Letitia James: NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today led a coalition of 14 attorneys general in…
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Treasury agrees to block additional DOGE staff from accessing sensitive payment systems
Suzanne Smalley reports: The Treasury Department has agreed to temporarily block all but two members of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team from accessing sensitive payment records and to limit their access to “read-only,” according to a Wednesday court filing. The DOGE workers allowed to continue accessing Treasury’s payment systems are Tom…
Maybe we should all file breach reports against Musk like Kevin did. (1)
The Washington Post reports: Agents of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have gained access to highly restricted government records on millions of federal employees — including Treasury and State Department officials in sensitive security positions — as part of a broader effort to wrest control over the government’s main personnel agency, according to…
A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman report: A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, three sources tell WIRED. Two of those sources say that Elez’s privileges include the…
Personal medical information might have been exposed on Chicago Department of Public Health dashboard
Todd Feuer reports: Some people might have had their names and medical information exposed on a Chicago Department of Public Health online dashboard last fall, city officials said. On Oct. 8, 2024, the department learned about an “inadvertent potential disclosure of sensitive information used to generate statistics related to public health and safety,” CDPH officials…
Hong Kong govt office sorry for losing tapes with personal data
RTHK reports: The government office responsible for providing insolvency services has issued an apology after magnetic tapes containing information of about 76,000 people went missing. However, it stressed chances of a data leak is “extremely low”. The Official Receiver’s Office revealed on Monday that seven magnetic backup tapes were lost while being delivered from Immigration…