Danielle Leigh reports: An Army veteran from Yelm has a warning for other veterans about security breaches on the eBenefits website maintained by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. The website is a universal portal for managing retirement, healthcare and disability described as “a secure environment where you can safely access your personal…
Category: Government Sector
IE: IAA apologizes for data breach
The Irish Aviation Authority has apologised after a data breach on its drone register. Registered owners were allowed to access the names and contact details of all other drone pilots as a result of an error. Read more on The Nationalist.
Turkish prosecutor opens probe into ‘personal data theft’ of millions
From the it’s-about-time dept., Yeni Şafak reports: … Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said that the source of the mass leak should be verified. Turkey has a personal data protection law which guarantees personal data protection as an institutional right, in force. Fifty million people is a very big number. We will take all measures to…
FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard. The alert, which is also available…
Ca: Possible client data breach at Justice Ministry and Edmonton Police
Brenda Neufeld reports: Alberta’s Justice Ministry and Edmonton Police are investigating a potential privacy breach of client data from the department that collects and enforces court-ordered child and spousal support. Minister of Justice and Solicitor General Kathleen Ganley says she’s extremely disappointed to hear about the possible breach in the Maintenance Enforcement Program. An MEP…
Turkish Citizenship Database Leak (Update 2)
Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure? Seen online after a subsequently-deleted tweet called attention to it: This paste with a link to a 6.6 GB file, purportedly containing clear-text information on 49,611,709 Turkish citizens, including the following details: National Identifier (TC Kimlik…