John Solomon and S. A. Miller report: The U.S. intelligence community is bracing for the possibility that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email account contains hundreds of revelations of classified information from spy agencies and is taking steps to contain any damage to national security, according to documents and interviews Thursday. The top…
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PA: Abington postal clerk jailed for stealing customers’ credit card info
Margaret Gibbons reports: A Philadelphia man who used his former employment at the U.S. Post Office in Abington for a credit card fraud operation is going to jail. Rashaad Calif Schell, 25, of the 5500 block of North Third Street, was sentenced Wednesday to eight to 23 months and an additional six-year probation sentence after…
UK: Confusion over patient data on lost hospital stick
It seemed like a straightforward breach disclosure, but apparently there’s still some confusion swirling around what happened with an East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust USB stick that was found by a member of the public. The Eastbourne Herald reports: The husband of a woman whose confidential patient details were found on a memory stick which…
Ca: Anonymous blindsides CSIS with ‘cabinet-level’ security breach
Alex Boutilier reports: Canadian government and law enforcement officials are scrambling to figure out how Anonymous got their hands on what the hacker collective calls cabinet-level secrets. On Monday, individuals associated with Anonymous released to the media the first in what they call a series of sensitive government documents. They will continue to release documents…
IM: No action to be taken following email data leak
This is a follow-up to a breach reported in May in the Isle of Man. EnergyFM reports: No action will be taken against the Income Tax Division despite an email it sent out about Twitter breaching data protection rules. On May 20th the division sent out 10 sets of e-mails to 500 recipients advertising its…
Ottawa scrambles to solve secret document breach by Anonymous
Alex Boutilier reports: Canadian government and law enforcement officials are scrambling to figure out how Anonymous got their hands on what the hacker collective calls cabinet-level secrets. On Monday, individuals associated with (sic) released to the media the first in what they call a series of sensitive government documents. They will continue to release documents until…