Pam Kragen reports: The city of Oceanside has shut down its online bill-paying system for utility customers while it investigates a possible data breach of customers’ account and credit card information. Twenty-five residents who recently paid their water, sewer or trash bills through the city’s online portal contacted the city on Aug. 13 to report…
Category: Government Sector
Labor Department blames data breach for shutdown of employee injury reporting site
Jennifer Gollan has more on a situation previously noted on this site. Once again, the nation’s top workplace safety regulator has a message for employers: “Don’t send us your injury logs.” But rather than bureaucratic red tape, this time the online filing system is hamstrung by a data breach. The Labor Department on Wednesday temporarily…
IT staffers may have compromised sensitive data to foreign intelligence
Paul Sperry reports: Federal authorities are investigating whether sensitive data was stolen from congressional offices by several Pakistani-American tech staffers and sold to Pakistani or Russian intelligence, knowledgeable sources say. What started out 16 months ago as a scandal involving the alleged theft of computer equipment from Congress has turned into a national-security investigation involving…
NYS State Comptroller DiNapoli audit of City of Yonkers
Well, this sounds like an epic FAIL on the City of Yonker’s part, doesn’t it? City of Yonkers – Information Technology (Westchester County) The IT department’s acceptable computer use policy was not signed or acknowledged by all employees and city officials have also not classified personal, private and sensitive information based on its level of…
UK: Islington Council faces huge fine after massive data breach hit 90,000 people
A London council has been fined £70,000 after it accidentally published a cache of personal data including medical details, cheques, and even one person’s prison record. Islington’s parking system website published unencrypted personal information of almost 90,000 people, meaning it could be accessed by simply manipulating a URL Read more on Evening Standard.
CA: Breach of RNC officers’ information in Sunshine List accidental, says privacy commissioner
CBC News reports: The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has concluded that a privacy breach that led to the salary and employee ID information of some Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers being published online earlier this year was accidental. The information was published as part of the 2016 Sunshine list, which listed people who…