Sam Stanton reports: A worker at California’s Department of Motor Vehicles, which is the subject on an ongoing federal bribery probe into the misuse of department computer files, has been accused of using driver’s license records in an elaborate mail and identity theft case. Sarah Laray Sandoval, 39, was a DMV employee with access to…
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NC: Thomasville employees’ SSN accidentally released in public records request screw-up
Here we go again. Another public records request where someone sent out records without proper redaction. This time, it’s nearly 270 employees of the city of Thomasville who had their SSN disclosed improperly and then uploaded to Facebook. The city will give them credit monitoring. FOX8 has the story.
Pittsburg employees notified after their W-2 data stolen in phishing scheme
CORRECTION: I picked this up incorrectly as Pittsburgh in PA. A kind reader pointed out my error. This was Pittsburg in Kansas! Corrected Post: The City of Pittsburg hasn’t disclosed how many former and current employees had their W-2 data stolen in a phishing scam on January 30, but I’m betting it’s more than a…
NL: Youth, 18, arrested in probe into last week’s tax office cyber attack
An 18-year-old youth from Oosterhout has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in some of last week’s cyber attacks on the tax office and IT news site Tweakers. The youth, who was picked up last Thursday by the police high tech crime unit, is also thought to have been behind a string of other attacks…
British hacking suspect wins appeal against extradition to U.S.
Color me surprised. Owen Bowcott reports that Lauri Love won his appeal (ruling) and will not be extradited to the U.S. to face hacking charges here. The court accepted both of the main arguments advanced by Love’s lawyers that there was no reason he could not be tried in England and that he might suffer…
Unalaska residents’ data accidentally exposed online
I’ll be honest: I had never heard of Unalaska at all. Now I’ve heard of it twice in the past three months. The first time, it was a breach involving their Iliuliuk Family and Health Services clinic. This time, it’s a data leak. KUCB reports: The City of Unalaska could be on the hook for…