There are insider breaches and then there are insider breaches. Reuters reports: An Egyptian court has put ousted president Mohamed Mursi on trial on charges of endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar, furthering a state crackdown on his outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. […] The public prosecutor had said Mursi’s aides were involved in leaking…
Category: Government Sector
UK: Cumbria police worker to face trial on data charges
News & Star reports: A civilian police worker will face trial after denying two data protection offences. [identity information redacted by DataBreaches.net– see update], faces one charge of knowingly or recklessly obtaining information contained in personal data without the permission of the data controller, and one charge of recklessly or knowingly disclosing that information, in…
UK: Data protection laws broken 13 times by Companies House
Alun Jones reports: Confidential and personal details were sent to the wrong people by staff at Companies House in Cardiff, BBC Wales has learned. A Freedom of Information request revealed 13 breaches of data protection law at the agency’s headquarters in 2014. Read more on BBC.
Jeb Bush’s privacy-shattering email cache hid another surprise: Viruses
Martyn Williams reports: In addition to personal phone numbers and email addresses for hundreds of people who corresponded with him, there’s something else inside the cache of emails that Jeb Bush released this week: computer viruses. Earlier this week, Bush, who some tip as a presidential hopeful, released thousands of emails from his time as…
OR: Convicted ID thief found with ‘how to’ guide, DMV database
Brent Weisberg reports: Joe V. Johansen was arrested Jan. 30 by officers with the Portland Police Bureau’s Street Crimes Unit that operates out of East Precinct. […] In the affidavit that requested an increase for bail, Jackson wrote Portland police officers Michael Strawn and Patrick Mawdsley received a downloaded copy of a computer that Johansen…
Jeb Bush Redacting Sensitive Information in Email Dump
Shushannah Walshe report: Jeb Bush’s political action committee are redacting constituent Social Security numbers (SSNs) that were in his massive e-mail release Tuesday and they are laying the blame for the blunder squarely on the state of Florida, noting they tried to stop this from even happening last year. The potential 2016 presidential candidate released over 275,000 e mails in the…