Kieran Nicholson reports: State investigators are looking into a database breach at the Colorado Department of Transportation which could lead to identity thefts. The breach of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program with CDOT was discovered recently and has been reported to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said Amy Ford, a CDOT spokeswoman. […] “A probationary…
Category: Government Sector
Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, ‘it was easy’
Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne report on a jail-house interview with Marcel Lehel Lazar, aka, “Guccifer,” about how he hacked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server. You read their story on Fox News. If he’s telling the truth, there was nothing very sophisticated about his approach.
CA: Humboldt County Notice of Data Breach
May 2, 2016 The County of Humboldt announced today that five computer terminals used by the public in an office on the fifth floor of the county courthouse were misconfigured by a third-party software provider, potentially allowing access to limited confidential information. On April 4, 2016, the county learned that individuals accessing parcel information in…
FL: Owner of Vanguard Cybersecurity arrested for hacking into state, Lee elections websites
Looks like someone forgot to ask, “Mother, May I?” Ben Brasch reports: An Estero man has been accused of hacking into the state and Lee County elections websites. Officers with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested David Levin, a 31-year-old political consultant and owner of Vanguard Cybersecurity, on three third-degree-felony counts of property crimes. […] Agents accuse Levin of illegally…
UK: Health trust fined after data breach
ITV reports: A health trust has been hit with a £185,000 fine after it posted the private details of thousands of members of staff – including their sexual orientation – on its website. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust inadvertently published workers’ confidential data which also included their National Insurance number, date of birth and…
UK: Sacked Merseyside policewoman appeals dismissal for snooping on database
Luke Traynor reports that disgraced police constable Paula Humphreys will not just go quietly into the night: A sacked police constable is appealing the decision to dismiss her for snooping on confidential police computers about the criminal activity of her relatives and their boyfriends. Paula Humphreys lost her job in December after a disciplinary panel…