Lynnsey Gardner reports: A Duval County clerk of courts employee is under fire after a City Council auditor’s report showed the employee improperly accessed personal information from a statewide database. The Driver and Vehicle Information Database contains a wealth of confidential personal information for Florida drivers — such as driver’s license number, home address, license…
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Raleigh DMV office throws personal information in trash
Ed Crump reports: The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles is warning customers who visited one office in Raleigh of a possible personal information breach after records were thrown in the trash instead of being shredded as they’re supposed to be. It happened at the office on Spring Forest Road. Officials said the records of…
Privacy, what? Bengaluru police leaks 46,000 phone numbers on Twitter
IndiaToday reports: …… Bengaluru police goofed up too when it came to handling privacy concerns of Bengaluru citizens. The police department posted phone numbers of thousands of citizens on their Twitter handle (@BCPCR) who called 100 and complained against harassment, quarrels, and gambling etc. The police posted over 46,000 tweets online since April 2015 sharing…
North Carolina data breaches expose internal documents, personal records
Colin Wood reports: North Carolina state government experienced two data breaches, according to reports released Tuesday. Security research firm MacKeeper reported a statewide data breach that occurred last month exposing internal documents spread across the offices, divisions and departments of Administration, Health and Human Services, Medical Assistance, Cultural Resources, Public Safety, State Controller, State Budget…
OpPlan 5027 Exposed to Hackers
KBS reports: In an exclusive report, it has been made known that a South Korea-U.S. key war plan was exposed in a hacking attack in September of last year. While pointing to North Korea, the ministry had initially believed that there was no major security breach. However, recent investigations have revealed otherwise. Read more on KBS…
Police announce arrest following alleged breach of B.C.’s PharmaNet system
The Canadian Press reports an arrest in a case involving inappropriate access to B.C.’s PharmaNet system: An investigation was launched in February after police were notified that someone was fraudulently using information obtained through the data system. […] The province said in a release Monday that 20,500 people may have had their information viewed inappropriately, up dramatically…