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NH: Hancock town clerk arrested for sharing private information

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Dissent

Cassidy Swanson reports: The town clerk for Hancock has been arrested for sharing a resident’s personal information, according to the attorney general’s office. Joan Joseph was arrested and charged with one count of violating RSA 260:14, the Driver Privacy Act. The act establishes that records from the Division of Motor Vehicles are confidential. According to…

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Man Charged In Scheme To Steal More Than $1.5 Million From A U.S. Financial Institution

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Dissent

On October 27, a complaint was unsealed charging Dwayne C. Hans, a United States citizen, with wire fraud, computer fraud, and money laundering.  According to the complaint, between April 2016 and July 2016, the defendant masterminded a series of frauds against a U.S. financial institution in which he masqueraded as an authorized representative of that…

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UK: Former Solent NHS Trust employee prosecuted for Section 55 offense

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Dissent

From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A former administrative employee of Solent NHS Trust, Kayleigh Evans, has been prosecuted at West Hampshire Magistrates’ Court for accessing the sensitive medical records of a former girlfriend of her partner, without the consent of the data controller. The unlawful accesses to the records were over a 10 month period….

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U.S. Bank Regulator Notifies Congress of Major Data Security Breach

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Dissent

Donna Borak reports: A U.S. bank regulator on Friday disclosed a data breach involving a former agency employee’s unauthorized removal of more than 10,000 records. The cybersecurity breach was first detected by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in September while the agency was undertaking a retrospective two-year review of employees downloading information…

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IDF colonel suspended for stolen military laptop

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Dissent

yoav Zitun reports: Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel suspended an Air Force col. for two weeks, after he reported that his army-issued laptop was stolen from his home. The commander, who serves in the military headquarters in the Kiryah, reportedly took the laptop home with him, despite orders not to do so. It…

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Nuclear power, defense workers leaking data through unsecure pagers

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Dissent

Joe Uchill reports: Nuclear power plants, chemical plants, defense contractors and other highly sensitive industries and workers are leaking information through their pagers, a new report shows. Pagers have been out of vogue with the public since the rise of the cellphone but are still used to send automated messages from industrial systems or building automation systems….

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