Dan Kelly reports: Leesport residents are being advised to put a hold on their bank accounts after the Leesport borough tax collector learned her computer system had been hacked. The borough issued a Code Red Alert via email to residents and put a message on the borough’s internet home page advising borough taxpayers that tax…
Category: Government Sector
Cucamonga Valley Water District discloses Click2Gov breach
From the Cucamonga Valley Water District website, a Dec. 4 notification: Cucamonga Valley Water District (CVWD) was recently informed of a data breach of the Click2Gov web portal used by CVWD customers for one-time credit card payments. CVWD values its customers and respects the privacy of their information, which is why, as a precautionary measure,…
JP: More HDDs with personal data found to be auctioned
Officials of Kanagawa Prefecture say nine more hard disk drives with taxpayers’ personal information are still missing in addition to another nine drives that have been recovered. The 18 HDDs were auctioned away online by a worker of a recycling firm in violation of contracts. Read more on NHK.
About 3,000 Fort Worth water customers may have had info stolen in data breach
Kaley Johnson reports more trouble for Click2Gov software by CentralSquare Technologies: About 3,000 customers of the Fort Worth Water Department may have had had their information stolen due to a data breach, a department spokeswoman said. Those impacted would have made a one-time payment for Fort Worth water with a credit card between Aug. 27 and Oct….
Police: Court clerk sealed court cases involving her family
AP reported: A former Rhode Island court clerk has been charged with illegally accessing and then sealing without a judge’s authority cases involving herself or her family. Rhode Island State Police on Tuesday announced that 51-year-old Lynn Gaulin, of Smithfield, faces three counts of access to a computer for fraudulent purposes. Read more on AP….
UK: ICO enforcement action for insider snooping breach
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this announcement: A former Social Services Support Officer at Dorset County Council has been prosecuted for accessing Social Care records without authorisation. An internal investigation found that Ms Shipsey had inappropriately accessed the Social Care records without any business need to do so. The records related to four individuals known…