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…
Category: Government Sector
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…
Indian police arrest criminals selling and trading biometric Aadhaar data
By now, my regular readers have likely all seen reports of data breaches where biometric data were stolen or hacked, such as the OPM breach where 5.6 million employees’ fingerprints were also acquired by suspected state actors or state-sponsored hackers. But a news report out of India shows how biometric data may be part of…
Top secret files found in locked file cabinet sold in second-hand shop
What’s possibly worse than leaving files with personally identifiable information in filing cabinets that you’re selling as surplus? How about leaving top secret and classified documents on the workings of five governments? Oh yeah, it happened in Australia.
Fire chiefs issue apology for privacy breach in Port Hills fire report
So often reports to the public fail to properly redact personal information. Here’s a case out of New Zealand: Fire chiefs have been forced to issue a shame-faced apology after releasing private, personal information in reports into last year’s Port Hills fires. Almost a year since the massive fires on Canterbury’s Port Hills above Christchurch,…
Harris County tightens security after almost losing $900K in phishing attack
Mihir Zaveri reports: On Sept. 21, not three weeks after Houston was ravaged by Hurricane Harvey, the Harris County auditor’s office received an email from someone named Fiona Chambers who presented herself as an accountant with D&W Contractors, Inc. The contractor was repairing a Harvey-damaged parking lot, cleaning up debris and building a road for…