Here’s another breach from last week that was sitting in the drafts folder because, well, I’m old, I forget. Census.gov was hacked by Anonymous, whose claimed motivation was “#TPP #TTIP” (Trans-Pacific Partnership, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). Ali Raza reports: A hacktivist group, which refers to itself as Anonymous, has claimed that the United States Census Bureau…
Category: Government Sector
Ca: Anonymous says it hacked Canada’s security secrets in retaliation for police shooting of B.C. activist
I had reported on Anonymous’s attacks on the RCMP in retaliation over the killing of activist James McIntyre earlier this week, but the story is gathering steam now. Yesterday, Adrian Humphrey of the National Post reported on the claimed hack, and it’s clear that the government is paying attention. Humphrey reported: To support their claim, members of…
Georgia Division Of Aging Services Notifies 3,000 Clients Of Data Breach
Randy L. Key reports: Georgia’s Department of Human Services Division of Aging Services has notified approximately 3,000 clients in the Community Care Services Program of an unauthorized disclosure of their protected health information. The Department has identified the root cause of the issue, which involved the inadvertent disclosure of certain health diagnoses of affected program…
Is there a “constitutional right to informational privacy”? as claimed by NTEU’s data breach lawsuit?
On July 8, in noting NTEU’s lawsuit over the OPM hack, I had questioned the suit’s claim that the government breach constituted a violation of their “constitutional right to informational privacy.” Jennifer E. Canfield of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP also picked up on that point and discusses the issue on Montgomery McCracken Data Privacy…
More than 1,000 employees in Anchorage veterans administration notified of breach due to employee error
On June 10, the Salt Lake City Regional Office of the Veterans Administration was notified that the The Wounded Warrior Program Office in Seattle had received a box from a veteran in Anchorage. The veteran had previously gone to the Anchorage office in April to request a copy of her VA file, and several weeks later, had returned to…
Almost 500 veterans notified of breach due to mailing label errors by medical supply vendor
A Veterans Administration incident report started with a report that 121 patients of the Charleston, SC facility received medical supplies from Medline Industries intended for 121 other patients. The error was the medical supplier’s packing error. It seems that in April, the supplier had installed a new automated system for applying shipping labels to packages, and the new…