Erin Heffernan reports: A top Beaufort County elected official filed a legal complaint this week claiming the county and its treasurer compromised his family’s privacy by releasing personal information to a political adversary. Beaufort County Auditor Jim Beckert filed the complaint Sept. 29 in Beaufort County Common Pleas Court against both Beaufort County and County…
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FBI says hackers have made more attempts to breach state voter registration systems
Well, Chris Vickery and I tried to warn everyone about making these lists public and not securing them better. Now we see this, by Nicole Rojas: During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday (28 September), FBI Director James Comey revealed hackers have attempted to hack into voter registration sites in more than a dozen…
NY: 488 affected by data breach in Mastic Beach
News12 reports: The village of Mastic Beach says 488 residents may have had their personal information stolen in a data breach by a former employee pretending to be the chief of police. Mayor Maura Spery says an 18-month audit discovered a former village employee illegally accessed highly personal information from a law enforcement database. “The…
Probe of leaked U.S. NSA hacking tools examines operative’s ‘mistake’
Joseph Menn and John Walcott report: A U.S. investigation into a leak of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency is focusing on a theory that one of its operatives carelessly left them available on a remote computer and Russian hackers found them, four people with direct knowledge of the probe told Reuters. The tools, which…
FL: Charlotte deputy misuse of private information leads to concern
Tim Wronka reports: One deputy is fired and another disciplined in Charlotte County. That’s the punishment for using agency equipment to look up information of private citizens. It’s the latest in a series of misuses of the D.A.V.I.D. system — a state database with driver and personal information. Attorney Scott Weinberg has kept a close eye on…
MO: Camden County Acknowledges ‘Possible Security Breach’ Of Courthouse Computers
The day after an FBI investigation descended on the Camden County Courthouse, County Attorney Charles McElyea has acknowledged a “possible security breach” of the courthouse computer systems. McElyea said once the potential breach was discovered, “the Camden County Commission took immediate steps to secure the system and started an investigation to determine if there was…