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Ca: Metrolinx claims computers hit by North Korean cyberattack

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Dissent

CBC News reports: An Ontario transit agency says it was in the crosshairs of a North Korean cyberattack earlier this month. The attack was a virus, routed through Russia, that infected computers at Metrolinx, according to a source at the agency who spoke on condition of anonymity. Spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins confirmed to CBC Toronto that the attack took…

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ICE Releases Personal Information Of Immigrant-Crime Hotline Users

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Dissent

Because victims didn’t have enough tsuris already?  This one appears to be an error made in responding to a FOIA request that resulted in personal information being revealed online. There was no text with the story – just the video news broadcast.  

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Private info for hundreds of Kansas voters exposed by Florida

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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Home Office admits it sent asylum seeker’s personal info to the state he was fleeing

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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Ca: Dark family secrets: Anonymous letter uncovers child welfare records

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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Alleged CIA China turncoat Lee may have compromised U.S. spies in Russia too

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Dissent

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…

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