Katie DeRosa reports: B.C.’s information and privacy commissioner is investigating whether the theft of two laptops from North Saanich municipal offices constitutes a privacy breach. The laptops of chief administrative officer Rob Buchan and manager of corporate services Curt Kingsley were stolen sometime between late Saturday, after the municipal election ended, and early Monday. Sidney/North…
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UK: Police investigate personal data theft from Aberdeen City Council
The Evening Express reports police are investigating data theft from Aberdeen City Council in August: The incident was one of six breaches of the Data Protection Act between July and September this year. Evening Express does not provide any details on this particular incident, though.
MN: Alleged sheriff data breach found unsubstantiated
Sarah Stultz reports: Allegations of a data breach within the Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office were not substantiated, according to the county’s administrator on Wednesday. Administrator John Kluever and information technology staff investigated the possibility that someone was inappropriately viewing open investigation files and disseminating parts of those files in the public. The allegation came in…
USPS hackers may have accessed employees’ pay records, too
Aliya Sternstein reports: Compensation files for U.S. Postal Service workers might also have been breached during a recent hack that exposed the Social Security numbers and other personal data on about 800,000 USPS employees, a postal inspector said Wednesday. […] “We’re still conducting forensic analysis of the impacted servers,” said Randy Miskanic, incident commander on the…
Again? Irish Water sends customer’s private details to the wrong person
TheJournal.ie reports: A Dublin-based businessman has accused Irish Water staff of a catalogue of “shocking” errors which led up to his personal information being emailed to the wrong person. Read more on TheJournal.ie
Dutch police investigate security breach after confidential files are found via Google
DutchNews.nl reports: Dozens of confidential police files have ended up in the public domain following an internet security leak, the NRC says on Wednesday. The files concern murders, armed robberies, gangs and suspect jihadis. The information was easy to find using internet search engine Google, the paper says. Police have confirmed the leak and taken…