Brian Krebs reports: The Defense Contract Management Agency, the U.S. federal government entity responsible for performing contract administration services for the Department of Defense, is responding to a suspected cybersecurity breach and has pulled a number of its servers offline while the investigation continues, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. So far, there’s no evidence that any personal…
Category: Government Sector
Jeb Bush probably won’t be running on a privacy platform after doxxing everyone
Maybe one of the qualifications for President in the Constitution should be: “Has the common sense not to expose everyone’s personal information to the world.” T.C. Sottek reports: Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida….
UK: A bad day in court for Medway Council
Jon Baines writes: If the Information Commissioner (IC) reasonably requires any information for the purpose of determining whether a data controller has complied or is complying with the data protection principles, section 43 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) empowers him to serve a notice on the data controller requiring it to furnish him with specified…
FL: Tax security form mailing error exposes 1,200 taxpayers’ Form 1098 information
Mike Deeson: We are learning more about a tax form mailing mixup that is much more wide spread than we originally thought. The mailing error, which involved Form 1098 mailings, and which affected people as far away as Tennessee, was traced back to an error by a mailing service used by Multi Financial Services: Ryan is…
TX: Lubbock Housing Authority assisting applicants after data leak
Matt Dotray reports that Texas residents who filed a Section 8 application with the Lubbock Housing Authority for rent assistance may have had their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and estimated income exposed on the LHA’s web site when the wrong (unredacted) file was uploaded on December 23, instead of the redacted-SSN one. The file remained online…
HK: Inspector faces cop data theft, child porn raps
The Standard reports: A police inspector has appeared in Eastern Court charged with accessing a computer with dishonest intent, to get the personal details of officers. Sze Hang, 29, is also charged with possession of child pornography. He is accused of posting the personal data of fellow officers online, allegedly to help people identify them…