Mark Bowes reports: A state investigation is underway after authorities said they discovered 20 to 30 boxes of documents, including claims filed by veterans, in a storage unit once leased by a former Virginia Department of Veterans Services employee who worked at the agency’s veterans benefits office at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Veterans Services…
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Fife police officer’s data protection breach trial begins
The Courier reports: A policewoman said to have been “badly hurt” in the incident that led to the death of Sheku Bayoh went on trial today accused of accessing “personal” police data. Nicole Short faces Data Protection Act charges at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court. Detective Inspector Charles Duncan, 51, told the trial that Short was assigned to…
Feds rehire contractor linked to massive OPM data breach
Nicole Duran reports: The Obama administration has rehired an outside contractor that was partly responsible for what many think was the largest theft of personal information from the government in U.S. history, even as it continues to boast of several new steps it is taking to enhance federal cybersecurity. […] One of them is Key…
AU: 96,000 public servants in new data breach
Noel Towell reports: The federal government is caught up in a second data privacy scare, this time involving a massive data-set on more then 96,000 of its public servants amid fears their confidential information might not be secure. In the second potentially serious Commonwealth data breach to become public in less than a week, the…
Surgeon General warns staff that personal information may have been stolen
Eric Yoder reports: The Surgeon General on Monday issued a warning to his staff that is all too familiar to federal employees: Your personal information may have been stolen. In an email, Surgeon General Vice Adm. Vivek H. Murthy told “commissioned corps” employees of the Public Health Service that information, including their names, dates of…
InfoSec: FDA Needs to Rectify Control Weaknesses That Place Industry and Public Health Data at Risk
For years, Congress and federal regulators have been raising concerns about FDA’s infosecurity after report of a hack in 2013. So while the FDA has been issuing lots of statements about securing medical devices and mobile apps, the GAO would like them to know that they need to do a better job on securing their own data: What…