Nicholas Fandos and Ron Nixon reports: It was an audacious scheme: an attempted inside job at the office of a federal watchdog agency, where the cops, the authorities said, became the robbers. Three employees in the inspector general’s office for the Department of Homeland Security stole a computer system that contained sensitive personal information of…
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Massive Malaysian telco data breach might be an inside job
A. Azim Idris reports: Investigators in Malaysia have suggested the massive personal data leak of 46 million mobile phone accounts was linked to a subcontractor of the Southeast Asian country’s very own Internet regulators. On Monday, Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said investigators were tracking down the owner of an e-mail account which could…
In: Important documents of Social Welfare Department found lying on street
The Sentinel reports: Tezpur, Nov 27: There has been strong reaction over the recent act of absolute negligence on the part of a Supervisor of the Social Welfare Department in Tezpur in Sonitpur district after 300 important documents related to physically-abled persons were found scattered on the road by an auto-rickshaw driver. According to sources,…
IE: CSO admits major data breach as 3,000 people’s details leaked in email gaffe
Alan O’Keeffe reports: The Central Statistics Office has put its hands up concerning an error by a staff member which led to a serious breach of data protection rules. Information on thousands of people who had worked for the CSO had been inadvertently sent to individuals as a result of the mistake. The mistake, which…
AU: Data breach hits Department of Social Services credit card system
For more than one year, employee data of approximately 8,500 Department of Social Services employees was exposed online due to an error by contractor Business Information Services. Paul Karp reports that the compromised data included: credit card information, employees’ names, user names, work phone numbers, work emails, system passwords, Australian government services number, public service classification…
Sacramento Regional Transit Systems Hit By Hacker
CBS reports: Sacramento Regional Transit is the one being taken for a ride on this night, by a computer hacker. That hacker forced RT to halt its operating systems that take credit card payments, and assigns buses and trains to their routes. The local transit agency alerted federal agents following an attack on their computers…