Trisha Jalan reports: The Andhra Pradesh government has been leaking the personal data of more than 23,000 farmers who have received subsidies from the Andhra Pradesh Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Board, reported HuffPost India. The organisation encourages the growth of Ayurvedic medicines in the state; the subsidies are offered to farmers and tribals – and…
Category: Government Sector
DC health website security breach exposes nurse’s personal info including SSN
Scott Taylor reports: A nurse tells 7 On Your Side and Call For Action she was horrified to discover a government web site exposed her name, address and social security number to others… and could have done the same to 600 other nurses. Nurses just like Alexia Park can log onto the DC Department of…
Identities of thousands of Tennesseans with HIV made vulnerable by government error
Bret Kelman reports: For nine months, the confidential data just sat there, where hundreds of employees could reach it. The identities of thousands of Tennesseans with HIV or AIDS, both living and dead, were listed in a computer database kept on a server accessible to the entire staff of the Nashville Metro Public Health Department. But…
A dumb security flaw let a hacker download US drone secrets
Matt Burgess reports: A hacker used a basic security vulnerability to access highly sensitive files relating to the US military’s spy drones and tanks, new research claims. Security firm Recorded Future says it discovered a criminal attempting to sell the secret information for only a few hundred dollars on a dark web forum last month….
DOJ backtracks on linking OPM hack to loan fraud case
From the not-surprised dept.: I had suggested previously that claims that data used in identity theft came from the OPM hack were not very convincing. Now the government has walked back any claim that the data did come from the OPM hack. Mark Rockwell reports: The Justice Department said it jumped the gun with a…
Only researchers accessed the exposed 211 call logs – Los Angeles County
There is a follow-up to an incident involving exposed Los Angeles County 211 call logs. The misconfiguration had been discovered by UpGuard and was reported in May. Now the County has submitted its report to the California Attorney General’s Office. It states, in part: Our investigation determined that the incident was caused by an employee…