Vera Bergengruen reports: A veterans organization is suing the Pentagon for exposing private details about troops’ military service on “a truly massive scale” due to lax security on one of its websites. […] The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act website, which according to the Pentagon receives more than 2.3 billion searches a year, is mean to…
Category: Government Sector
State juror pool data breach exposed Social Security numbers
Kieran Nicholson reported: A lapse in security at the Colorado Judicial Department led to information about jurors in Colorado, including Social Security numbers, being exposed on the internet for about a year. The state court administrator’s office was contacted July 27 by a person in Alaska who alerted state officials about the potential for massive…
Aadhaar e-kyc app had 88,000 downloads: Cyber police
Rajiv Kalkod reports: The cyber crime police investigating the alleged theft of Aadhaar data by IIT grad Abhinav Srivastava, 31, found that the Aadhaar e-kyc app he developed had been downloaded by over 88,000 people from Google PlayStore. During the initial investigation, police said the app had been downloaded 40,000 times between January and July this…
Former Air Force member sentenced for stealing fellow members’ information
Luke Wilusz reports: A former U.S. Air Force member was sentenced to four years in prison this week for stealing and distributing personal information from other service members. A federal jury found 28-year-old Ronnie Allen II guilty earlier this year of two counts each of of identity theft, aggravated identity theft and access device fraud,…
AU: Sensitive details of vulnerable children in care released in department bungle
Nino Bucci reports: The personal details of children in care, including whether they were sexually active, was accidentally sent to the mother of one of the children in a troubling information breach. A spreadsheet was emailed to the mother outlining the name, birthdate, location, and specific concerns and alerts relating to all children in the…
Abhinav Shrivastava, an IIT graduate who is currently working at Ola, has been arrested by the Bengaluru police for illegally accessing the Aadhaar database.
FirstPost reports: Abhinav Shrivastava, an IIT graduate who is currently working at Ola, has been arrested by the Bengaluru police for illegally accessing the Aadhaar database. A complaint filed by the UIDAI on 26 July alleges that Shrivastava accessed the database “without authorisation between 1 January and 26 July”, reports The Indian Express. Shrivastava and a…