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UK: Policeman handed absolute discharge for breaching data protection act

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Dissent

Rebecca Buchan reports: A policeman who searched his work computer database for restricted information about his sisters has been handed an absolute discharge. During the course of one day, Keith Knowles accessed seven crime files while at work at Woodhill House, Westburn Road. The documents – relating to his siblings Lynn Robertson and Veronica Knowles…

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New privacy taskforce announced after leak of G20 leaders’ details

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Dissent

Paul Farrell reports: Australia’s immigration department has announced the creation of a new taskforce to strengthen the handling of sensitive information following an embarrassing data breach involving the personal details of G20 world leaders. […] The immigration department has been involved in several other serious privacy breaches since 2012, including the disclosure of details of almost 10,000 people…

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Kazakhstan Government Sues 100 “Does” Over Hack

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Dissent

Mike Heuer of Courthouse News reports that a lawsuit has been filed in Santa Clara County Court against Does over the hack of Kazakhstan government emails. You can read more here. This appears to be the second suit the government has filed.

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Florida Department of State confirms data breach

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Dissent

Florida’s Department of State has now issued a press release about a breach first reported on this site yesterday. Here’s their statement: The Florida Division of Elections has learned of the inadvertent release of non-confidential voter information that occurred in March following the fulfillment of voter registration record extract requests. The Division of Elections has confirmed…

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Former federal agents in Silk Road investigation charged with bitcoin money laundering and wire fraud

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Dissent

Two former federal agents have been charged with wire fraud, money laundering and related offenses for stealing digital currency during their investigation of the Silk Road, an underground black market that allowed users to conduct illegal transactions over the Internet.  The charges are contained in a federal criminal complaint issued on March 25, 2015, in…

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Florida Department of State exposes non-confidential voter information (updated)

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Dissent

Update: The Florida Department of State issued a statement on March 31 confirming the breach. That statement appears elsewhere on this site. Under the language of their statute, addresses are not considered “confidential” information, and the state has asked DataBreaches.net to make clear that this did not involve confidential information, as “confidential” is defined by…

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