The Asahi Shimbun has an editorial about the Japan Pension Service leak reported previously on this blog. The editorial begins: Two reports have been released about the leak of personal data concerning 1.25 million or so people from the Japan Pension Service’s computer system due to a security breach caused by e-mails containing computer viruses….
Category: Government Sector
How is this type of breach still happening in the Veterans Administration system?
I thought the Veterans Administration system had taken steps to ensure that people could not forward/send emails with protected health information outside the system. Yet an incident in Texas that was included in the VA’s July report to Congress shows that this still occurs. The VA’s summary of the incident for July 23rd notes: As…
Chaffetz wants answers from US-CERT, OPM on hack
Adam Mazmanian reports that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is asking some very specific questions of OPM and US-CERT: Chaffetz wants US-CERT, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, to report on when it was first contacted by OPM to report the breach, and any reporting or analysis on the nature of…
OH: Resort owner sues former Put-in-Bay police officer
Craig Shoup reports: A businessman has filed a defamation suit alleging a former Put-in-Bay police officer disclosed details on the Internet of a sealed criminal case. Attorney Mark Petroff, of Elyria, filed a lawsuit in the Lorain County Common Pleas Court on behalf of Put-in-Bay resort owner Mark Mathys, claiming former village police officer Steve…
AL: Woman pleads guilty to $7.5 million identity-theft scheme
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Talashia Hinton pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to using information stolen from state of Alabama databases maintained by the state of Alabama to file false tax returns and steal millions from the government. The indictment contends that Hinton worked with co-conspirators to file…
Former U.S. Government Employee Charged in Computer Hacking and Cyber Stalking Scheme
A former locally-employed staff member of the U.S. Embassy in London was charged with engaging in a hacking and cyberstalking scheme in which, using stolen passwords, he obtained sexually explicit photographs and other personal information from victims’ email and social media accounts, and threatened to share the photographs and personal information unless the victims ceded…