Amy Forliti of AP has update to a previously reported breach: A Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to stealing identification information from members of his former Army unit at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg has been sentenced to two years in prison. Keith Michael Novak was sentenced Friday in federal court on one count of identity theft. Read more on…
Category: Government Sector
U.S. Dept. of Energy to investigate ‘security event’ at Y-12 plant
Frank Munger reports: The U.S. Department of Energy has notified the contractor at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge that it plans to investigate a possible security breach and release of classified information. There were no details of the breach immediately available, and a plant spokesman said he couldn’t comment on the situation….
Judge revokes US citizenship of woman possibly involved in data security breach
Well, this is a bit different. Andrew Becker has an intriguing side note to a breach involving the Arizona Counter Terrorism Center that he previously reported with ProPublica: A federal judge in Arizona has ordered the U.S. government to revoke the citizenship of a woman at the center of a 2007 security breach involving a…
IE: Private investigators charged with ‘blagging’ personal data
Elaine Edwards reports on a breach case previously noted on this blog: Two private investigators have appeared in court charged with allegedly ‘blagging’ personal information on a number of individuals from both the Department of Social Protection and the HSE nd with passing it to credit unions. Margaret Stuart (56) and Wendy Martin< (45), both directors of MCK Rentals…
CA Department of Social Services files with identity info accidentally disposed of without shredding
From the California Health & Human Services Agency Department of Social Services: We are writing to inform you of a security incident involving your personal information. On July 17, 2014, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) was informed of the unauthorized release of documentation that may have included your personal information. Confidential documents were accidentally…
PK: Hackers take down govt websites, leak bank records
A group of Pakistani hackers temporarily brought down several government portals, including that of the Army, and leaked 23,000 bank records in a bid to support the ongoing anti-government protests in the country. The group calling themselves “Anonymous Op Pakistan” hacked over two dozen government websites overnight, a few of which remained inaccessible. Some of…