Mike Corder of AP reports: A Dutch security official responsible for protecting anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders has been detained on suspicion of leaking classified information, a police spokesman said Wednesday, sparking fears for the safety of the far-right populist lawmaker who for years has lived amid tight security. The extent of the breach and whether…
Category: Government Sector
Guelph settles $1-million lawsuit, gets back personal files
City hall has settled the wrongful dismissal lawsuit launched by former chief building official Bruce Poole and has also recovered personal information about City of Guelph employees that was inadvertently given to Poole’s lawyers. These announcements, made in two separate but related city hall news releases late Tuesday afternoon, conclude a matter that cost deputy…
OH: Taxation employee fired after accessing personal information of family, acquaintances
Randy Ludlow reports: An Ohio Department of Taxation examiner has been fired after an investigation found she improperly accessed the confidential personal and tax information of several relatives and acquaintances. A report released today by the office of Inspector General Randall J. Meyer found that Kelly S. Bolen accessed computerized personal information of several people, and…
Vets lose privacy lawsuit against VA after unencrypted data is stolen from hospital
Patrick O’Neill reports: After multiple thefts and data breaches related to the unencrypted personal information of 7,400 U.S. veterans out of a Veterans Affairs hospital, an appeals court dismissed a lawsuit this month in which patients alleged violations of the Privacy Act and Administrative Procedure Act. The veterans claimed at least seventeen more data breaches have occurred at Wm….
UK: ‘Shambles’ as council makes blunder with children in care register
Express & Star reports: The council mistakenly sent the list of children, including personal information, to a number of its in-house foster carers. It has now launched an investigation into the data breach and insisted that ‘no children were put at risk’. But County Councillor George Adamson, who is also the leader of Cannock Chase District…
Bingham County servers locked up by ransomware; hackers demanded $25k – $30k
Stephan Rockefeller reports: Bingham County officials are scrambling to rebuild parts of their computer infrastructure after a ransomware attack took down county servers on Wednesday. Although efforts have been made to correct the problem, computer issues remained as of Friday. “Every department in the county is affected in some way,” Bingham County Commissioner Whitney Manwaring…