Right before Christmas, the County of San Diego Benefits Division discovered that some employees’ personal information had been inadvertently shared with Wells Fargo. The problem arose when the county sent personal information of those employees enrolling in a Wells Fargo Health Savings Account. A programming error by the county’s service provider, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, resulted in the additional transmission…
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NY: Newburgh manager orders city’s cloud data deleted because of ‘security breach’
I’m not sure I understand what’s gone on here, but MidHudson News reports: City Manager Michael Ciaravino’s decision to wipe out all of the data on Newburgh’s cloud has prompted Councilwoman Cindy Holmes to demand an investigation. Holmes noted that as a result of the manager’s decision, she lost her two years of city information…
UK: String of data protection breaches by Leicester City Council staff revealed
Dan J. Martin reports: Details of a string of breaches of data protection laws by staff at Leicester City Council have been published. Information revealed by the authority outlines a series of errors by employees handling sensitive documents. Among the breaches were a series of letters posted to the wrong addresses, a form containing personal details falling…
AU: Police accidentally gave victim’s details to alleged attacker
Paul Farrell reports: The Australian federal police accidentally revealed the personal details of an assault victim to the alleged perpetrator, risking the safety of the complainant and his family, according to an AFP risk assessment. The lapse is one of seven serious privacy and security breaches the AFP has suffered since 2012. Details of the breaches, which…
Lawsuit against Jacksonville over police misuse of database settles
There’s an update to a lawsuit, noted previously, that alleged that two police officers misused a database to find out information about a highway patrol trooper who issued a speeding ticket to a Miami police officer in 2011. The trooper sued after being harassed, alleging violations of the Drivers Privacy Protection Act. The city would later claim, as…
Il: Garbage truck driver finds top secret Navy docs
A military garbage truck driver prevented a potentially devastating IDF information leak on Wednesday, when he discovered highly classified documents from the office of the Navy’s chief of staff while emptying out his vehicle at the Hiriya trash dump site in central Israel. Read more on Times of Israel.