Hannah Francis reports: Australians’ private tax records were left unsecured thanks to a serious flaw in how the tax office’s online services connect with myGov, in the latest of a series of security bungles related to the federal government’s online services. Experts have raised concerns over the handling of IT security issues by the Australian Taxation Office and…
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Suit accuses Georgia of massive data breach involving 6 million voters (updated)
Kristina Torres reports: Two Georgia women have filed a class action lawsuit alleging a massive data breach by Secretary of State Brian Kemp involving the Social Security numbers and other private information of more than six million voters statewide. The suit, filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court, alleges Kemp’s office released the information including…
Hackers Leak Brazilian Army’s Data for Foul Play in Cyber War Games
Carolina reports: Earlier this week the servers of Brazilian Army got hacked leading to private details of around 7,000 military officials getting stolen. Hackers were quick to publish the hacked private data, which included national insurance numbers and IDs/passwords used for accessing official military websites along with other details. The attack on its servers was…
Australian member of #Anonymous sentenced to jail
In May, DataBreaches.net began coverage of the prosecution of three men affiliated with Anonymous in Australia. The first, Mathew Hutchison (a/k/a, “Rax”) was charged with incitement and was sentenced in August to a two-year community corrections order and community service. A second youth, known online as “Juzzy” or “Absantos,” among other aliases, had also been…
NC: DHHS discloses second Medicaid data breach
WRAL reports that the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services has had a second breach involving hundreds of Medicaid patients. It was the second time in as many months that an employee error involving unencrypted e-mail resulted in exposure of patient information. This time, the breach reportedly affected 524 patients. Officials said they have installed…
Illinois data breach: Dept. of Insurance posts personal information on public website
Marcia Lense reports: The Illinois Department of Insurance announced an inadvertent data release, that exposed critical personal information. According to a news release, the department received a complaint that Social Security numbers from a health care provider could be seen. The department says it had sent filings from Blue Cross Blue Shield to the System…