Matt Dotray reports that Texas residents who filed a Section 8 application with the Lubbock Housing Authority for rent assistance may have had their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and estimated income exposed on the LHA’s web site when the wrong (unredacted) file was uploaded on December 23, instead of the redacted-SSN one. The file remained online…
Category: Government Sector
HK: Inspector faces cop data theft, child porn raps
The Standard reports: A police inspector has appeared in Eastern Court charged with accessing a computer with dishonest intent, to get the personal details of officers. Sze Hang, 29, is also charged with possession of child pornography. He is accused of posting the personal data of fellow officers online, allegedly to help people identify them…
UK: Theft of laptops containing data about victims of child sexual exploitation ‘covered up’
ITV reports: Rotherham Council covered up the loss of personal data on computers which contained information about the victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE) when 21 laptops were stolen, according to the Casey Report. Louise Casey’s report found that 21 laptops were stolen from the council’s Norfolk House building in October 2011. Today’s report said…
Fire at a Brooklyn Warehouse Puts Private Lives on Display
Vivian Yee reports: No lives were lost in the huge fire that gutted a storage building on the Williamsburg waterfront over the weekend. But the flames put plenty of lives on display as the crumpling warehouse belched up its contents: decades’ worth of charred medical records, court transcripts, lawyers’ letters, sonograms, bank checks and more….
Isle of Man transport chiefs apologize after security breach on pupils’ bus cards
From the see-what-you-find-when-you-actually-investigate dept.: There’s an update to a previously noted breach. IOM reports: The Department of Infrastructure has been criticised after a member of the public saw another person’s details – including an ex-directory phone number – while using the online service in December. As we reported on Tuesday, data protection supervisor Iain McDonald said ‘public…
Florida Man Sentenced In Identity Theft Scheme Using Inmate and Lexis Customer Information
A St. Lucie County resident was sentenced to 70 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Patrick J. Ward previously pled guilty to one count of possessing fifteen or more access devices and one count of aggravated identity theft. According to court documents, during a search warrant of Ward’s residence, law enforcement recovered…