Business Standard reports: An incident in Jharkhand again seems to have raised some serious questions of Aadhaar’s data-breach vulnerabilities. The Aadhaar numbers of hundreds of thousands of pension beneficiaries were suspected to have been illegally displayed on a government website in Jharkhand, in violation of the Aadhaar Act, The Indian Express reported. The lapse, apparently, occured due…
Category: Government Sector
KE: Ronald Nsale denies hacking into Safaricom system
An Ugandan man was on Friday charged with hacking into Safaricom’s system. Ronald Nsale had been in police custody and was presented in court following allegations that he had hacked into the electoral commission’s systems. It was alleged that he was working with the Islamic State group and was charged with unauthorized access to a…
30,000 London gun owners hit by Met Police ‘data breach’
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)…
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…