The Shropshire Star reports: The error, which saw 222 incorrectly printed letters sent to homes in the borough, was in breach of data rules, the authority has admitted. Council chiefs today apologised for the blunder, which they said was down to human error. A disabled woman in her 60s, who lives in Telford but does…
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UK: Hacker jailed for eight months after attacking police, council, charity and porn websites
Liverpool Echo reports: A jobless computer hacker was jailed today for eight months after launching a mass cyber attack on The Met Police, Tory Party and British Airways websites – from his bedroom in his parents’ house. Ian Sullivan, 51, flooded the internet servers for police forces, councils, charities and even porn sites as part…
AU: TAFE hack: Student ‘sex assault and bullying’ details hacked in IT breach
Amy Remeikis reports that despite early assurances from the government that all information was “low-level,” the TAFE breach (noted previously on this blog) included some sensitive information such as sex assault and bullying complaints: “However, in relation to records deemed to be of a more sensitive nature, the department needed to contact 16 people to alert…
You Only Need One Password to Access the Allegedly Hacked Law Enforcement Databases
Meant to post this one yesterday, but got sidetracked. It’s a great reminder of how if you try to make things more user-friendly, you may also significantly compromise security – and in this case a LOT of government files that should be secured better. Aliya Sternstein reports: The U.S. government recently lassoed together a bunch of intelligence…
Ca: WorkSafeNB apologizes to 3,022 injured workers for privacy breach
CBC reports that too much information sharing went on when WorkSafeNB provided data to to Corporate Research Associates. The breach was not the polling firm’s fault, but WorkSafeNB’s, for providing details the contractor did not need and should not have been sent. WorkSafeNB has sent out more than three thousand letters of apology over a serious…
UK: Norwich International Airport website hack sparks ‘secure’ update pledge
BBC reports: An airport has taken down its passenger information website after a hacker breached security systems, claiming they were too lax. Using a pseudonym of His Royal Gingerness (HRG), the hacker told the BBC he wanted to highlight the website’s “vulnerability”. It only took him a few minutes to hack into the site, he…