State owned telecommunications authority (Cyta) was fined on Wednesday €10,000 for violating personal data, after an employee gave confidential data of over 200 customers to a retired police officer. The fine was handed down by the commissioner for personal data protection, Irini Loizidou. Read more on Cyprus Mail.
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Social Security numbers of 2,100 Maine foster care participants posted online
J. Craig Anderson reports: The names, addresses and Social Security numbers of roughly 2,100 Mainers who receive foster care benefits were accidentally posted to a public website in September, the Maine Office of Information Technology said Monday. The incident was the responsibility of an employee of a contractor, Knowledge Services, who still has a contract…
Alabama Resident Convicted in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Schemes That Sought $26 Million
This case has been going on for years. You can find previous coverage of it on this site either by searching for individual defendants’ names or searching for “Alabama Department of Corrections.” From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Alabama on November 9: A Phenix City, Alabama resident was convicted today by a federal…
Security flaw may have exposed personal info on 21,000 Utah Express Pass users
Oops? Art Raymond reports: A vigilant UDOT Express Pass customer discovered a glaring security breach in the third-party website that manages pass accounts, but state officials don’t yet know if the personal information of approximately 21,000 current and former customers has been compromised. That information on customers who have purchased passes for accessing HOV lanes…
AU: AMP among companies affected by data breach of 50,000 staff records
Namaan Zhou reports: The personal details of more than 4,000 government employees have been exposed in a massive data breach of 50,000 staff records from various companies across Australia. The leak, first reported by iTnews, is believed to be the second-largest data breach in Australian history, after the details of 550,000 blood donors were accidentally…
VEC discovers personal details of about 21,000 Victorian voters accidentally published online
Monique Hore reports: Thousands of Bayside residents’ names and addresses have been broadcast online in an electoral roll privacy breach. The Victorian Electoral Commission discovered in May that the details of about 21,000 voters in the 2015 Bayside council election could be found online, including the names and addresses of 28 people who have since become…