Jonathan Shorman and Hunter Woodall report: Partial Social Security numbers for nearly 1,000 Kansas voters were released publicly by Florida after Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office provided the data as part of a program that looks for double voter registrations. Kobach called the disclosure unfortunate but defended the program, called Crosscheck, as key to…
Category: Government Sector
Home Office admits it sent asylum seeker’s personal info to the state he was fleeing
From the D’oh dept., Rebecca Hill reports: An asylum seeker has won £15,500 from the UK’s Home Office after it blabbed confidential information about his persecution in his home country – to authorities in the state. In a poorly thought-through attempt to verify the authenticity of a set of documents about the asylum seeker, the…
Ca: Dark family secrets: Anonymous letter uncovers child welfare records
Here’s a news report of an insider privacy breach in Canada that is just…. awful. That is has resulted in severe psychological harm and trauma to one of those impacted is not surprising. The incident, which you can read about here, involves records that are more than 30 years old that appear to have been…
Alleged CIA China turncoat Lee may have compromised U.S. spies in Russia too
And yet another example of how serious insider breaches can be. Tom Winter, Ken Dilanian, and Jonathan Dienst report: The arrest last week of a former CIA officer suspected of spying for China exposed one of the most significant intelligence breaches in American history. But the damage is even worse than first reported, sources familiar…
British schoolboy, 15, posed as a CIA director to access secret military reports and taunted FBI agents
Fionn Hargreaves reports: A schoolboy hacker impersonated a CIA director to gain access to top secret military reports, a court heard yesterday. Kane Gamble was just 15 when he posed as CIA chief John Brennan from his Leicestershire home, even taking control of his wife’s iPad. The teenager gained access to passwords, personal information, security details,…
Florida Department of State notifies 945 of breach involving the last four digits of their SSN
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING INADVERTENT RELEASE OF LIMITED CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION DOS providing free credit monitoring services for 945 affected individuals TALLAHASSEE – In January 2013, The Florida Department of State, Division of Elections temporarily participated in a project pilot in an effort to facilitate validation of information between states. In September 2017, the last four digits…