RTÉ reports: Former minister for justice Alan Shatter has lost his appeal against a decision by the Data Protection Commissioner that he breached the Data Protection Act. The commissioner found Mr Shatter breached the act by disclosing information about independent TD Mick Wallace on RTÉ’s Prime Time in 2013. Mr Shatter had suggested Mr Wallace benefitted…
Category: Government Sector
Police commander sacked over ‘sensitive leak’
BBC reports: A London police borough commander has been sacked by a disciplinary panel for giving details of a “sensitive” police investigation to a journalist. Det Ch Supt Andy Rowell was dismissed without notice after a disciplinary panel found allegations of gross misconduct against him had been proven. The panel heard he had let a…
NZ: Queenstowners’ personal details leaked in privacy breach
Celia Grosble reports: Thousands of Queenstowners’ personal details have been exposed in an “embarrassing” major privacy breach by the district council’s regulatory organisation. Lakes Environmental has inadvertently released, via email, the details of every single complaint it’s received over the past 10 years. Read more on Scene,
MN: St. Francis police officer subject of criminal investigation over possible data breach
Shannon Prather reports: In what could be one of the first tests of the state’s new tougher data practices laws, the police chief in St. Francis recently initiated a criminal investigation into one of his own officers on allegations that he illegally accessed private data. The officer is accused of viewing recordings of candidates interviewing…
C’mon, folks, you really need to acknowledge breach notifications, Monday edition
I haven’t kept strict statistics, but in general, most entities that I try to notify of a breach fail to respond at all. Others may respond that they’re looking into claimed hacks, but then fail to get back to me with a definitive answer or statement. Here’s another case in point: On January 10, I…
TR: Education Ministry database breach leaves millions at ID theft risk
Following up on the data protection/breach problems in Turkey, BGN News reports that a breach in Ministry of Education IT system puts ID information of 15 million students, their parents, and teachers at risk: According to Cumhuriyet daily, the General Directorate of Information Infrastructure Systems as well as the General Directorate of Support Services memo titled “Password…