July 23, 2016 – Granger, Ind. — U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly pressed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Northern Indiana Health Care System following recent and troubling reports that the VA had mistakenly sent veterans’ personal health information to the wrong veteran. Donnelly sent a letter to Jay Miller, Director of the Department of Veterans…
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UK: Wolverhampton council in huge data leak blunder
In 2011, the Information Commissioner’s Office had the Wolverhampton council sign an undertaking to improve data protection. In 2014, the ICO ordered the council to improve data protection. And now in July, 2016, we read this: A report from the Information Commissioner’s Office said payroll information relating to 9,858 workers had been disclosed to a ‘third…
Wikileaks posts nearly 20,000 hacked DNC emails online
Andrea Peterson reports: Wikileaks posted a massive trove of internal Democratic National Committee emails online Friday, in what the organization dubbed the first of a new “Hillary Leaks” series. The cache includes nearly 20,000 emails and over 8,000 file attachments from the inboxes of seven key staffers at the political party, including communications director Luis…
Teenager who hacked governments worldwide is spared jail
Martin Evans reports: A teenage computer hacker who shutdown government networks across the world and sent bomb threats to US airlines from his bedroom, has walked free from court. The 16-year-old from Plympton in Devon, began hacking the sites of organisations and governments he disagreed with when he was just 14. Using a laptop computer in…
Ca: Government knew of Phoenix privacy breach issue more than a year ago
Aedan Helmer reports: The government encountered not one, but two privacy breaches with the problematic Phoenix pay system, and was aware of the issue more than a year ago, officials acknowledged Thursday. In an open letter to public servants posted online Thursday afternoon, Public Services and Procurement Canada deputy minister Marie Lemay said that in both…
Ca: Police clerk charged for Breach of Trust
Ebyan Abdigir reports: A Toronto Police civilian employee of three years has been charged with two counts of breach of trust. It is alleged that Erin Maranan, 28, of Thornhill snooped through unauthorized queries of the police database for searches not for official police business. Maranan allegedly committed these crimes in February 2014 and September…