Hugo Daniel reports: The IT company Hilary Clinton chose to maintain her private email account was run from a loft apartment and its servers were housed in the bathroom closet, Daily Mail Online can reveal. Daily Mail Online tracked down ex-employees of Platte River Networks in Denver, Colorado, who revealed the outfit’s strong links to the Democratic…
Category: Government Sector
Town of Saugerties: Information Technology Audit by NYS Comptroller’s Office Reveals Serious Problems
From the audit report, some background first: The Town contracts for IT services with an independent contractor. The contractor’s duties include performing all significant maintenance and hardware installations, and providing technical support and expert advice on the upgrade of the entire IT environment. The Town uses computerized applications to perform essential tasks including processing financial…
Update on IRS breach affecting Katy ISD employees
Several weeks ago, Katy ISD in Texas started notifying 11,658 current and former employees that their SSN and personal information were on a flash drive that was lost by an IRS employee during an audit. Today, Landan Kuhlmann reports that the district enrolled all the affected employees in a credit-monitoring program provided by iLock360 for…
London’s new online appeals service suffers data protection breach
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…
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…