CTV reports: New documents show that the private information of tens of thousands of people was mishandled by the federal government last year, including hundreds of taxpayer files inappropriately accessed by employees of the Canada Revenue Agency, which was the worst offender. Read the detailed findings on CTV. I can’t help it. I’m reading the above…
Category: Government Sector
VA physician leaves patient files in his car, and….
March seems to have been a relatively quiet month for the Veterans Administration in terms of breaches reported to Congress. The only incident of note involved the Seattle VA. According to their monthly report, during the night of February 28, a briefcase containing two lists of patient names was stolen from a physician’s locked vehicle….
IE: Personal details of almost 2,000 civil servants incorrectly ‘leaked’ – PSEU conference
Caroline Crawford reports: The personal details of almost 2,000 civil servants, including their pps numbers and detail of leave taken, was incorrectly “leaked” in a major data breach, the PSEU conference has heard. The incident which happened in the past week occurred when a spreadsheet containing the personal details of 1,914 civil servants was inadvertently…
Data stolen from Baltimore City employees, city announces
There’s a lot we don’t know about this one yet, and it’s not clear to me whether this incident will fall into the phishing for w-2 list, but Tom Prudente reports: Someone or a group has stolen personal information from an unknown number of Baltimore City employees and filed fraudulent tax returns, the city announced…
IL: Evanston provides a year of free protection services, monitoring to employees after mishandling tax information
Rishika Dugyala reports: Evanston will provide free, year-long identity theft insurance and credit monitoring to employees whose tax information was accidentally revealed in the mail. Marty Lyons, Evanston’s chief financial officer, told members of City Council’s Administration and Public Works Committee on Monday that in addition to the employees’ social security numbers being displayed through…
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley Asks Hillary Whether ‘Guccifer’ Hacked Emails
Newsmax reports: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley has asked Hillary Clinton if she knew whether her emails were hacked by “Guccifer” — the noted Romanian who first revealed that the former secretary of state had used a private server. In a letter Tuesday to Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, the Iowa Republican referenced a “Meet…