There’s another follow-up to the case of a former IRS employee involved in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme. Nakeisha Hall was originally charged in December, 2015 for her role in the scheme, and pleaded guilty in February, 2016. Hall was sentenced today. As AL.com reports: A former IRS employee, who helped taxpayers experiencing problems…
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The Nauru files: cache of 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention
An exclusive from The Guardian: The largest cache of documents to be leaked from within Australia’s asylum seeker detention regime details assaults, sexual assaults and self-harm: More than 2,000 leaked incident reports from Australia’s detention camp for asylum seekers on the remote Pacific island of Nauru – totalling more than 8,000 pages – are published…
Ca: Brant County Health Unit says 494 personal records breached
CTV Kitchener reports: An unauthorized person gained access to the immunization records of nearly 500 people, the Brant County Health Unit says. According to the health unit, the recently discovered breach involves the records of 494 people who submitted information on their child’s immunization via the BCHU website between July 2015 and October 2015. Read…
‘It was an attack’: Australian census website collapses due to ‘malicious foreign hackers’
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…
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…