Reid Southwick reports: Calgary police are attempting to notify up to 400 people that their privacy may have been breached after five service-issued notepads were stolen from an off-duty officer’s vehicle. […] Police made no mention of the stolen notebooks until Monday, more than five weeks after the initial theft. […] The stolen notebooks could contain…
Category: Government Sector
IRS investigator from Alabama charged with fraud, identity theft in agency’s latest scandal
Elizabeth Beshears reports: An IRS agent from Alabama and his accomplice have been indicted for fraud and identity theft, resulting in thirty charges between the two men for conspiring to file fake tax returns. The indictments are the latest in a string of scandals to rock the agency responsible for collecting federal taxes and enforcing…
Former NRC employee indicted after attempting to sell nuclear secrets and launch cyber attack
Lucas W. Hixon reports: Charles Harvey Eccleston, a 62-year-old former employee of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Department of Energy (DOE) currently living in the Philippines, was the subject of an undercover investigation by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after a cyber attack was used to attempt to steal files from…
Ca: Privacy Breach Involving Big Game Licence Applications
VOCM reports: There’s word of another privacy breach involving provincial government mail-outs, this time involving big game licence applications. The provincial government says it is aware of at least 15 instances where people who had applied for big game licences received their own application, and the application intended for another individual. There have also been…
China denies social security data spill
Sometimes a non-incident seems newsworthy. Today, I stumbled over this Xinhua report from April 23, responding to another report that I had never seen either, it seems: There has been no data breach of the social security network, a senior official said on Thursday following media reports. The personal information of tens of millions of…
For years, a Passport Agency contractor copied passport applicants’ data to create fake identities
Colby Itkowitz reports: A woman employed as a State Department contractor was indicted in Houston on Wednesday for an alleged identity theft scheme using personal information she stole while working at a passport office. The contractor, Chloe McClendon, and two other women were charged “with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and…