Shaun Hegarty reports: The 13abc I-Team has uncovered a major personal information release by the State of Ohio. Drivers’ licenses, social security numbers, even birth certificates without personal information blocked out was all released by the Department of Agriculture. People looking into the seizure of animals from Tiger Ridge Exotics got far more than they…
Category: Government Sector
NSW TrainLink: Some credit card info at risk after website security breach
The NSW Opposition has called on the state’s Transport Minister to reveal how many customers have been affected by a security breach of TrainLink’s online booking systems. Transport for NSW said it was investigating a “compromise” of the TrainLink website’s reservations system, which has since been shut down. TrainLink provides intercity, regional, and interstate train…
OPM discovered last year’s massive data breach, not contractor
An investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee into the massive Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach confirms that it was OPM who first discovered the breach, and not a contractor during the course of demonstrating its product days later. According to documents reviewed by the committee and described in a May 26 letter from Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, Brendan Saulsbury, an…
NI Prison Service: data breach ‘not serious security threat’
Vincent Kearney reports: A data breach involving the personal details of hundreds of Northern Ireland Prison Service employees has been described as “a major embarrassment”. However, the BBC understands it is not being treated as a major security breach. A junior employee at the Department of Justice sent a spreadsheet with names and dates of…
In: Raids by Agra drug enforcement dept fail due to leak of information
Anuja Jaiswal reports: An apparent leak from the Food Safety and Drug Department, Agra, resulted in a series of failed raids by it’s Enforcement wing on Tuesday afternoon, as six medical stores in the city, suspected to be selling flavoured “tincture”, which has 90 per cent alcohol content, as a cheap liquor alternative to alcoholics, were…
AU: Email fail at Do Not Call Register, thousands of contacts exposed
Brendon Foye reports: Thousands of email addresses were exposed yesterday in an email sent on behalf of the Do Not Call Register. […] In an email sighted by CRN sent yesterday, DNCR Support informed about a planned service outage scheduled for 25 May. The email contained more than 2,000 email addresses in the “To” field….