Sarah Stultz reports: Freeborn County administration is investigating a suspected data breach within law enforcement, according to Administrator John Kluever. He said he and other information technology staff are looking into the possibility that someone was unnecessarily viewing open investigation files and disseminating parts of those files in the public. He declined to comment on…
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NZ: Victim in fear after court privacy breach
Hamish McNeilly provides yet another example of how “small” breaches can cause great harm or distress for individuals: A Dunedin man says he is living in fear after a Family Court privacy breach resulted in his address being sent to his brother, who had allegedly threatened to kill him. The Family Court has apologised for…
Three sentenced in fraudulent Mississippi driver’s license case
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this blog: Yolanda Jean Perkins, 48, of Laurel, a former driver’s license examiner for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety; Lorena Gomez, 33, of Laurel; and Elmer Enrique Martinez-Velasquez a/k/a Jose Martell Rivera, 32, an illegal alien from Mexico residing in Albertville, Alabama, were sentenced in…
Former federal IT contractor sentenced for disabling Fannie Mae website after his employment terminated
On October 10, the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) today announced that Sathish Kumar Chandhun Rajendran, 36, of Sterling, Va., was sentenced on October 3, 2014, for engaging in unauthorized access to government servers that hosted a Fannie Mae website used to support federal mortgage loan modification…
GA: Administrative clerk indicted on theft, fraud charges
Roslyn Giles reports: A Muscogee County grand jury has returned a 10-count indictment against an administrative clerk on theft and fraud charges. Regina Millirons, a 30-year veteran with the sheriff’s office, faces four counts of public record theft, three counts of public record fraud and three counts of computer theft. The indictment states the unlawful…
NOAA National Weather Service Employee Indicted for Allegedly Downloading Restricted Government Files
DAYTON, OH—Xiafen “Sherry” Chen, 59, of Wilmington, Ohio, was indicted in U.S. District Court for allegedly accessing restricted U.S. Government files. Chen is a hydrologist currently employed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) facility located in Wilmington, Ohio. Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Kevin R. Cornelius,…