Joe Thomas reports: A Merseyside police officer is facing a disciplinary probe over allegations she used force computers inappropriately and failed to tell bosses of her links to someone with a criminal conviction. PC Paula Humphreys will appear before by a misconduct panel next week over the accusations. The hearing, scheduled to begin on November 30, will…
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Feds round up 50 suspects in latest ID theft-tax fraud sweep in South Florida
Jay Weaver reports: Federal agents arrested about 50 people on identity theft and tax fraud charges across South Florida over the past week, including a couple of suspects accused of breaking into an Internal Revenue Service database to steal supposedly secret information from taxpayers and file fraudulent refund claims in their names. Read more on Miami…
GA: IT staffer fired in data breach affecting 6 million Georgia voters
Kristina Torres reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp will issue an alert this afternoon formally notifying more than 6 million Georgia voters that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, were illegally released last month by his office. The decision to send the notification comes two days after his office was alerted…
Ca: Prince Edward Island’s Workers Compensation Board reports 47 privacy breaches in 4 years
CBC News reports: P.E.I.’s information and privacy commissioner is recommending changes to prevent breaches at the Workers Compensation Board after 47 breaches to personal privacy were reported in a four-year period. Privacy Commissioner Karen Rose started investigating after a WCB client complained in 2010 some of his medical information was mailed to an unrelated third…
AU: Taxpayer records exposed by serious ATO, myGov security flaw
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…
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…