Deniz Huseyin reports: London Tribunals’ online appeals service had to be temporarily shut down last month after a data protection flaw was discovered by a parking campaigner. The shutdown happened 10 days after the online service switched to a new system when Northgate Public Services replaced Capita as the London Tribunals contractor, appointed by London…
Category: Government Sector
Colorado notifies Medicaid patients of HIPAA breach
Denver, CO – The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (the Department) announced today that protected health information was unintentionally disclosed in a recent mailing. Letters were mailed between May 25 and July 5, 2015 and contained protected health information (PHI) of individuals from 1,622 households. The problem was identified on July 1st when…
IRS: Hackers May Have Stolen Tax Information From Additional 220,000
Julianne Pepitone reports: The Internal Revenue Service revealed Monday that criminals potentially accessed tax information for a total of 338,000 taxpayers — triple the amount feared when the breach was first disclosed in May. The IRS had originally said that hackers potentially accessed information for 114,000 taxpayers via an online system. The agency did a further review and…
OPM Hit With Another Data Breach Class Action By Judge
The plaintiff in one of the class action lawsuits filed against the government over the massive OPM databreach is a judge. Courtney Coren reports on McGarry v. Office of Personnel Management et al., Case No. 1:15-cv-01705, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. OPM, DHS, and Keypoint Government Solutions are named as defendants. Read more…
Florida Highway Patrol trooper sues two Jacksonville cops, alleging they illegally looked up her information
Here we go again – cops behaving badly with databases. Andrew Panzati reports: After a Florida Highway Patrol trooper ticketed a Miami police officer for driving 120 mph, FDLE records showed that about 90 people across the state — including two Jacksonville police officers — looked up the trooper’s personal information using a police database…
Hacker hits 24 sites to ‘alert’ govt
Arab News reports: A national hacked more than 24 government websites Saturday morning in just two hours after those in charge of these websites ignored messages of a possible attack, said an online newspaper. Through his Twitter account, the hacker “Cyber of Emotion” said that after the government websites ignored his messages about a possible…