Paula McMahon and Adam Sacasa report: A Palm Beach sheriff’s deputy faces identity theft and fraud charges for abusing his access to a law enforcement database to steal people’s personal information, authorities said Thursday. Another man arrested in the same case told investigators that he agreed to pay Deputy Frantz Felisma $10,000 a month in…
Category: Government Sector
1,000 UK government laptops, computers and data sticks missing since election
The Irish Examiner reports: At least 1,000 government laptops, computers and data sticks have been reported lost or stolen since the general election, according to official figures. Equipment went missing from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) at an average rate of more than one a day, according to records obtained under Freedom of Information (FoI)…
Costa Rica: great coffee, but not-so-great website security?
Pop Quiz: What do the Argentinian Ministry of Industry, the National Assembly of Ecuador, Nigeria’s embassy in Belgium, the Eastern India Regional Council, Jordan’s ministry of tourism, the Slovak Chamber of Commerce, and the Consular Department of the Embassy of the Russian Federation all have in common? Answer: They’re some of the government web sites hacked and dumped…
WI: Former Forest Service Employee Sentenced in Federal Court for Identity Theft and Credit Card Fraud
United States Attorney Gregory A. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced Tuesday that Michael Hanan, 35, of Sussex, Wisconsin was sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment and 3 years supervised release for identity theft and credit card fraud. In September of 2016, Hanan pleaded guilty to one count of access-device fraud, in violation of 18…
CRA spends millions but fails to stop tax workers from snooping on Canadians, documents show
Dean Beeby reports: Canada Revenue Agency workers continue to snoop on the confidential tax files of businesses, acquaintances and others, despite at least $10.5 million spent so far to try to stop them. CBC News has uncovered nine significant cases reported since Jan. 1 in which tax workers improperly poked around the government’s electronic records to…
Personal information of more than 100 Quebec judges found in parking lot
CBC reports: A secret list containing the home addresses, phone numbers and names of spouses to dozens of Quebec Superior Court judges turned up in a parking lot, leaving the court’s spokesperson hoping no digital copies were made. […] St-Pierre says the list contained the personal information of 125 Montreal-based Superior Court judges. Copies of this confidential…