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Ca: Possible client data breach at Justice Ministry and Edmonton Police

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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Turkish Citizenship Database Leak (Update 2)

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Dissent

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…

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How to Hack an Election

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Dissent

Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, and Andrew Willis report: It was just before midnight when Enrique Peña Nieto declared victory as the newly elected president of Mexico. Peña Nieto was a lawyer and a millionaire, from a family of mayors and governors. His wife was a telenovela star. He beamed as he was showered with red,…

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NY: Claim That Sheriff’s Agency Accessed Confidential Samaritan Hospital Records Proceeds

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Dissent

There’s an update in litigation that stemmed from a medical privacy breach involving the Rensselaer County Jail and Samaritan Hospital in Troy, New York. It’s a case that I’ve blogged about a number of times since early 2013, when we first learned that employees of the jail had their medical records improperly accessed because a…

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OH: Private data accidentally exposed by Amherst police personnel

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Dissent

Steve Fogarty reports: Police personnel mistakenly posted online the Social Security numbers of about 30 people during a period when they were learning how to use a new record-management system. They appeared on accident reports that were posted online from the last few weeks of 2015 to the first few weeks of 2016, according to…

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WA: Olympia man suspected of stealing hard drives from federal offices

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Dissent

Amelia Dickson reports: A Thurston County judge has set bail at $10,000 for Nicholas W. Perring, an Olympia man suspected of stealing hard drives containing names and Social Security numbers from a federal office. […] According to court documents, Perring is suspected of breaking into four offices, all at 701 Capitol Way S., on two…

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