Gareth Corfield reports: London gun owners are asking questions of the Metropolitan Police after the force seemingly handed the addresses of 30,000 firearm and shotgun owners to a direct mail marketing agency for a commercial firm’s advertising campaign. The first any of the affected people knew about the blunder was when the leaflet (pictured below)…
Category: Government Sector
JP: GMO Payment Gateway submits report with Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry over data leakage
Maria Nikolova reports: More than a month has passed since Japanese provider of payment processing services GMO Payment Gateway Inc confirmed that personal data leakage that had affected the websites of two of its clients – the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Japan Housing Finance Agency. […] At the end of last week, GMO Payment Gateway…
Breaking: Voters’ personal data at risk in Cobb theft
Aaron Gould Sheinin reports on yet another breach involving Georgia voters’ information: State officials are investigating the theft last week of equipment from a Cobb County precinct manager’s car that could make every Georgia voters’ personal information vulnerable to theft. The equipment, used to check-in voters at the polls, was stolen Saturday evening, Secretary of…
Customs Officer Admits Sharing ‘Sensitive’ Info
Tim Ryan reports: A former Customs and Border Protection officer has pleaded guilty to lying to law enforcement about sending “highly sensitive information” from government databases to people living overseas, federal prosecutors said. Jesus Muchacho, 39, of Temple Hills, Maryland, faces up to five years in prison for lying to investigators about sending information from…
AU privacy commissioner calls for investigation after Service NSW photo card privacy breach
Georgina Mitchell reports: The NSW privacy commissioner has called for a thorough investigation after thousands of photo ID cards, including gun licences, were mistakenly sent to the wrong people in a “significant” security breach. A total of 2693 cards were sent to the wrong people earlier this month. Among the documents mailed out were 2000 driver’s licences,…
RI: Third Personal Data Breach Hits UHIP Customers
Is it time to just call time of death on UHIP or reconsider the contract with the tech vendor? Or is this just to be expected in any rollout like this? Kristin Gourlay reports: State officials say they’ve encountered another personal data breach in the new online system for state benefits like Medicaid – a…