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…
Category: Government Sector
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…
FL: More details emerge on Orange County Health Dept breach
More details have emerged about a breach noted previously on this site. WFTV reports that the records were stolen from an Orange County Health Department employee’s car, but whether the employee had followed policy is somewhat unclear. Jeff Deal of the news station reports that county officials told him that the employee was allowed to have the…
KS: Army private accused of stealing fellow soldiers’ identities while at Fort Riley
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Todd M. Newbrough, a former Army private stationed at Fort Riley, has been charged in federal court in Topeka with with four counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, four counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of computer fraud. The indictment alleges that Newbrough used personal identity information of…
FL Dept. of Health documents of 5 patients stolen
News13 reports that sensitive information on five patients was in a “secure briefcase” stolen from a Florida Department of Health employee’s vehicle. The state knew about the March 31st theft on April 1, but only notified patients this week, it seems. One of the victims, Chris Kibodeaux, didn’t learn until Thursday that his name, social…
Ca: Prime Minister’s Office removes videos from online site which may show soldiers’ faces
A series of videos distributed by the Prime Minister’s Office, some of which showed the faces of the country’s special forces soldiers, were abruptly pulled offline early Tuesday in an embarrassing security breach. The videos, on Stephen Harper’s official 24-Seven feed, were taken during his recent whirlwind trip to Iraq and Kuwait, where the travelling media were…