Andrew Gilligan reports: A senior counter-terrorism officer is under investigation after passing confidential security information to the school at the centre of the Trojan Horse plot. Brett Williams, an inspector with West Midlands Police, has been interviewed under caution by the force’s professional standards department. In emails from 2013, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, he…
Category: Government Sector
Egyptian court puts ousted president Mursi on trial over Qatar link
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…
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…