AP reports: A former Ohio trooper accused of stalking a subordinate’s wife after an affair has been charged with finding or keeping personal information about 10 other women obtained from a law enforcement database without authorization. A Washington County court says William Elschlager pleaded not guilty to the new charges Wednesday. Read more on Daily…
Category: Government Sector
NV: State agency audit withheld to protect sensitive data after serious security lapses found
Sandra Chereb reports: Auditors delayed release of a report detailing security vulnerabilities in state databases to protect the information of tens of thousands of current and former state employees and their beneficiaries, a legislative committee was told Tuesday. Douglas Peterson, information systems audit supervisor, told the Legislative Audit Subcommittee it was the first time he…
Secret Service database still vulnerable to improper access: IG report
Andrea Noble reports: Information technology shortcomings within the Secret Service mean the potential still exists for employees to improperly access the agency’s restricted database, as agents did last year when they leaked unflattering information about House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, according to a new inspector general’s report. The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General has found that even after last…
Subcontractor error exposed Vermont Health Connect customers’ SSNs
AP reports: A security lapse earlier this summer has jeopardized the Social Security information of nearly 700 users of Vermont’s online health insurance marketplace. Vermont Public Radio reports officials learned of the security breach when one Vermont Health Connect customer found her name and Social Security number on an online document while conducting an internet search….
Lithuania: OCCRP Partner Finds ID Theft Hole in Election Site
OCCRP reports: Technical flaws in a voter support site that cost more than US$ 1 million in taxpayer and EU money have left thousands of Lithuanians’ personal data vulnerable, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project partner 15min.lt has reported. An anonymous whistleblower tipped off 15min.lt to flaws in The Voter’s Page (rinkejopuslapis.lt), a system financed by the…
BoM was hacked by a ‘foreign power’: report
Claire Reilly reports: It’s official. Foreign spies compromised Australia’s government networks last year, and they got at us through our weather division. The Australian Cyber Security Centre has confirmed that a 2015 attack on servers at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology was conducted by a “foreign intelligence service.” The attack saw two computers on the BOM’s network…