Mukhtar M. Ibrahim reports: A Minneapolis FBI agent who started his career with the agency as an intern in 2000 has been charged with leaking classified information to the news website The Intercept. Terry James Albury’s attorneys, JaneAnne Murray and Joshua Dratel, said in a statement that their client, the only African-American FBI field agent…
Category: Government Sector
AU: Health department breached Privacy Act in 2016 incident
AAP reports: The federal health department breached the Privacy Act when it released data about one in 10 Australians and didn’t adequately protect their identities. In August 2016 the department published data on a government website regarding a 10 per cent sample of people who had made a claim for payment of Medicare benefits since…
Oregon Dept. of Revenue detects and responds to employee uploading records to personal cloud storage
March 23, 2018. Salem, OR—The Oregon Department of Revenue has detected a security incident that involved approximately 36,000 individuals with records at the department. The facts of the incident are summarized below, along with protective measures the department has taken since discovering the incident. The potentially impacted information from the files included data such as…
Aadhaar hearing: Supreme Court expresses concerns with data breaches, Aadhaar security and profiling
It sounds like the Supreme Court of India was asking UIDAD some appropriate questions about the Aadhaar system. Asheeta Regidi reports: On Day 22 of the Aadhaar hearing, the CEO of the UIDAI, Ajay Bhushan Pandey, completed his PowerPoint presentation before the Supreme Court and answered the questioned posed by the petitioners. The bench posed…
Broker Watchdogs Accused of Letting Sensitive Data Go Public
Benjamin Bain reports: A whistle-blower is accusing some key financial regulators of allowing sensitive broker information to become readily accessible, even as industry watchdogs emphasized the need for companies to protect client data. According to a complaint lodged with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, personal data such as brokerage account numbers provided to an…
Personal data of 50 lakh ex-servicemen may have been breached, armed forces veteran calls it chilling
JKR staff report: In a sensational revelation, an RTI reply has indicated that a private vendor previously employed by the ministry of defence may have walked away with the personal data of 50 lakh ex-servicemen. The reply by the MoD, headed by Nirmala Sitharaman, raises several worrying questions in light of the latest reports of…