Marla Toncray reports: A former employee of the Mason County Detention Center has entered a guilty plea to charges of identity theft. In May, Belinda A. Morton, 43, was indicted on four counts false statement as to identity, for the purpose of procuring the issuance of a credit card using the name and identity of…
Category: Government Sector
UK: I’ve no regrets, says policeman sacked over ‘Plebgate’ leak
The London Evening Standard reports: A former policeman who was sacked after leaking information to the media about the “Plebgate” row involving Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell has said he would do it all again and has no regrets. James Glanville was sacked from the Metropolitan Police after he leaked information to the Sun newspaper about…
State Compensation Insurance Fund notifies claimants of breach
The California State Compensation Insurance Fund has been notifying compensation claimants of a data breach involving one of its service providers. The state learned of the attack on the system of Lucy Gomez Blanking Interpreting, Inc. on October 24. They did not disclose when the attack had actually occurred. Although there was not a lot of detail…
Ca: Privacy breach at city hall
Andrew Peplowski reports: Montreal police say officers had good intentions when they required city hall visitors to provide their names, dates-of-birth and driver’s license numbers on Tuesday evening. But they never should have left the sheets of paper, with all that information, behind at the end of the evening. A reporter from the Journal de…
Oops: After Threatening Hacker With 440 Years, Prosecutors Settle for a Misdemeanor
Andy Greenberg reports: Thanks in part to America’s ill-defined hacking laws, prosecutors have enormous discretion to determine a hacker defendant’s fate. But in one young Texan’s case in particular, the Department of Justice stretched prosecutorial overreach to a new extreme: about 440 years too far. Last week, prosecutors in the Southern District of Texas reached…
IE: Credit Union investigator fined €5k over data breach
Tom Tuite provides the update on a previously reported breach: A private investigator has been fined €5,000 after he was convicted of breaking data protection laws by obtaining private personal information held by gardai and the ESB. Judge John O’Neill heard that credit unions hired the services of former garda Michael J Gaynor, now trading as…