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…
Category: Government Sector
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…
Oregon tax agency employee copied personal data of 36,000 people
Hillary Borrud reports: An employee at Oregon’s tax collection agency copied the data of 36,000 people, including social security numbers, and stored the files to a personal account, the state announced on Friday. The Department of Revenue detected the breach on Feb. 23 and moved quickly to remove the files from the employee’s cloud account,…
MX: Movimiento Ciudadano fined almost $2 million for 2016 voter list data leak
In 2016, I reported on a leak involving a Mexican voter registration database with details on 93.4 million Mexican voters. The list had been in the possession and control of one of the political parties there, Movimiento Ciudadano, who tried to claim that they were hacked by none other than Chris Vickery, who had discovered their…
Atlanta city government systems down due to ransomware attack [Updated]
Sean Gallagher reports: The city of Atlanta government has apparently become the victim of a ransomware attack. The city’s official Twitter account announced that the city government “is currently experiencing outages on various customer facing applications, including some that customers may use to pay bills or access court-related information.” According to a report from Atlanta…