Catherine Healey reports: The Australian Bureau of Statistics claims its Census website collapsed after it was attacked by foreign hackers. ABS chief statistician David Kalisch told ABC radio Wednesday morning he was certain the Census website had come under a “malicious attack” from a foreign entity. “The online census form was subject to four denial…
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Ca: Smiths Falls police lay charges in Family Services data breach
There’s a follow-up to a breach previously reported in April. CTV Ottawa reports that two individuals have been charged in connection with the posting of confidential information from Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville. Kelley Denham, 28, and Derek Flegg, 50, are facing several charges including mischief, theft and trafficking in identity information. Read…
Hack attempt on Garda computers forced shutdown of systems
Irish Mirror reports: A hacking attempt was made on Garda computer systems this week, it has emerged. The attack, which happened on Thursday, forced gardai to shut down a number of internal systems in an attempt to prevent sensitive data from being reached. […]Gardai said they identified a ‘zero day’ or new strain of…
New Haven Probes Possible Data Breach
Paul Bass reports: Police are looking into a report of a terminated city employee possibly accessing other people’s private personal information from a government computer she took home. The incident allegedly took place at the city health department last Friday. It involved a woman whom the health department had hired as an epidemiologist. She was…
UK: Bungling contractors throw out 500 confidential documents in Newcastle CQC office refurb blunder
Helen Whitehouse reports: Confidential documents detailing the backgrounds of hundreds of people have gone missing following an office upgrade blunder. Bungling Contractors threw out a locked filing cabinet containing up to 500 Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificates for people who had applied to become registered managers and providers. The error, which happened during the…
Gatineau officers arrested in ‘criminal’ investigation for misuse of database
Megan Gillis reports: Two Gatineau police officers were arrested Friday morning and immediately suspended with pay after a criminal investigation into unauthorized use of a computer and breach of trust. The officers, one with three years of service and the other four years of service, have not been charged. Read more on Ottawa Citizen. Thanks to…