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…
Category: Government Sector
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…
Student privacy breached in Victoria Education Department blunder
Another breach involving sensitive information. Sophie Smith reports: The Victorian Education Department has said it is “deeply sorry” for mistakenly publishing private and sensitive information about homeschooled children on its website. Confidential information contained in submissions made to the department was published when the documents were uploaded without redactions on Friday. Details that identified students who…
AU: Optometrists and dentists will know if you’ve had an abortion or mental illness in health record bungle
Gah. Soooo many leaks and breaches are due to default settings that over-share. How hard is it for software to set default settings to NOT share with everyone? C’mon, folks. Sue Dunlevy reports: THE private health records of Australians can be accessed by more than half a million people under the latest bungle with the $2.2…
Shadow Brokers Publish the Password for the Rest the Stolen NSA Hacking Tools (and Lecture President Trump)
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Shadow Brokers (TSB) are back, and they’ve released the password for the rest of the hacking tools they claim to have stolen from the NSA last year.TSB is a mysterious group that appeared in the summer of 2016 when they dumped on GitHub and other sites a trove of files they…