Andrew Paplowski reports: Montreal Police will not confirm, but there is a report this morning they are going all out to try to recover sensitive information stolen from the private vehicle of a senior police officer, while he was attending a Christmas party. The Journal de Montreal says the bag of Captain Patrice Vilceus was…
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Personal info of 60 Ohioans in records given out
Randy Ludlow reports: A state agency mistakenly turned over the personal information and bank-account numbers of about 60 Ohioans to a pair of vendors, including one that sent the records to be copied by a third party. Officials of the MARCS emergency-communications system within the Department of Administrative Services didn’t notify people whose Social Security,…
40,000 Packages of Backlogged Claims Material Discovered at Single VA Office
This is absolutely disgraceful. Morgan Chalfant reports: More than 40,000 backlogged mail packages of veterans’ disability claims material were discovered at a VA regional office in Florida, according to a new report from the VA inspector general. Investigators also found more than 1,600 boxes of unprocessed veterans’ claims material at a scanning facility with which the St….
Watchdog slams laptop security at Dept. of the Interior
Greg Otto reports: Nearly 12,000 Interior Department laptops are inadequately protected against the theft of personally identifiable information due to poorly configured software. In a management advisory obtained by FedScoop, the department’s Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall wrote that a large number of laptops have their full-disk encryption software configured to run post-boot user authentication,…
Ex-D.C. juvenile justice worker pleads guilty in $42 million tax-ID-theft ring
Spencer S. Hsu reports that at least 645 youth offenders had their identity information provided to a tax fraud ring by a juvenile justice worker: A former D.C. juvenile justice worker pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping steal at least $2 million in fraudulent federal income tax refunds by giving personal information about hundreds of youth offenders…
In: Confidential data stands exposed on GHMC website
The Hindu reports: It is a free for all on Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s portal when it comes to data about births or deaths. Thanks to its sloppy security, confidential records of several thousands, alive and dead, stand exposed on the municipal body’s website. At a click of the mouse, birth and death enquiry links…