Daniel Politi reports: During a briefing on Friday, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, wanted to tell a feel-good story of where the president had decided to donate his salary this quarter. So she held up the $100,000 check that she said Trump would donate to the Department of Health and Human Services to “support…
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Florida joins ranks of states with unemployment application portal data security issues
And then there were 5. I’ve previously noted that four states have reported data security problems with their state portals for pandemic-related unemployment insurance: Arkansas, Illinois, Ohio, and Coloradans. Today, I see that Florida has joined the ranks of those that were alerted to data security issues. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity hasn’t said…
Indonesia probes breach of data on more than two million voters
Channel News Asia reports: JAKARTA: Indonesia’s election commission is investigating the release of 2.3 million voters’ private information on a hacker website along with a threat to release of the data of about 200 million people, the agency said on Friday (May 22). The electoral data from the world’s fourth most-populous nation was posted anonymously…
Ohioans’ and Coloradans’ personal info exposed in pandemic unemployment data breaches
Two more states have reported breaches or issues with state portals to apply for pandemic-related unemployment benefits. In Ohio, Maggy McDonel reports: The personal information of Ohioans receiving pandemic unemployment assistance was recently exposed to a data breach, according to Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services. The information reportedly included names, Social Security numbers…
Coronavirus: Serco shares email addresses of hundreds of contact tracers in ‘privacy breach’
Matt Mathers reports: E-mail addresses of 300 contact tracers have been shared accidentally by Serco in what could be a breach of data protection rules. The government is using the outsourcing firm to help with its tracing strategy aimed at monitoring Covid-19 cases. The company has been training people to track cases of coronavirus in the UK and has so far…
Tusla fined €75,000 for three GDPR violations
Luke Irwin reports: Tusla, Ireland’s child and family agency, has been fined €75,000 for three breaches of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). It was found to have disclosed the personal information of children to unauthorised parties on three occasions. Read more on IT Governance.