Lori Carlson reports: Staff and administrators at Prior Lake City Hall spent nearly four days battling a computer virus that struck the city’s HVAC system on the evening of Wednesday, June 8. City Manager Frank Boyles said a subsequent internal investigation showed no evidence of a data breach of personal information, such as the city’s…
Category: Government Sector
Two central Ohio men accused of stealing information from state
Jim Woods reports: A former state employee from Dublin and a private contractor from Hilliard were indicted Thursday on federal charges accusing them of a fraudulent scheme that involved stealing a computer software program from the state of Ohio. Jatinder Singh, 42, of Dublin, and Anju Vallabhaneni, 49, of Hilliard, were indicted on federal charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and destruction of records. The offenses…
Ca: Gatineau constable fired for looking up former friends in police database
A Canadian reader sends this item along: A Gatineau police officer has been fired after she pleaded guilty in April to illegally accessing police databases to look up personal information on three people following a falling out with a friend. Const. Chantal Lacroix was a 22-year veteran with the Gatineau Police Service, which confirmed her…
IE: Police officer cleared of leaking personal details used in virtual reality dispute
Nothing happened, move along? The Irish News reports: A police officer has been cleared of allegations that she disclosed sensitive personal information which was then posted by a player of an online virtual reality game. A man who plays the game Ingress alleged that the officer disclosed personal information about him to a rival player, who…
Update on Chicago employees’ retirement account breach
You may have missed it in the crush of other news this week, but I had noted that Nationwide Retirement Solutions is investigating how the retirement accounts of 91 Chicago municipal employees were breached earlier this month. Today, Karin Price Mueller of NJ.com has an update that suggests this was not a hack, but data theft to obtain…
Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records
Marcus Weisgerber reports: The U.S. Air Force has lost records concerning 100,000 investigations into everything from workplace disputes to fraud. A database that hosts files from the Air Force’s inspector general and legislative liaison divisions became corrupted last month, destroying data created between 2004 and now, service officials said. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed Martin, the defense…