WNCT reports that more than 70 Lenoir County employees have been notified that their names and Social Security numbers were exposed due an error by a Human Resources employee who neglected to redact the data in a salary report. Kinston provides some additional details. The unredacted report was sent to one person, who had worked in law…
Category: Government Sector
UK: Herts police admits data breach which published confidential details of 61 people on government website
Herts and Essex Observer reports: HERTS Constabulary is blaming a “computer error” after confidential information about people involved in anti-social behaviour cases was uploaded onto a Government website. The names and addresses of 61 individuals were posted on the Herts ‘local priorities’ pages on Home Office website police.uk. Read more on Herts and Essex Observer.
Breach involving Cape May-Lewes Ferry’s terminals and vessels went undetected for almost a year
On July 30, 2014, Delaware River and Bay Authority (“the Authority”) was notified of a possible security compromise involving credit and debit card data stored on certain systems at the Cape May-Lewes Ferry‘s terminals and vessels. An investigation into this incident was immediately initiated and our team, including third-party forensics experts, has been working continuously to understand…
The OIG revealed that the FDA’s computer network is vulnerable to a potential data breach
Elizabeth Snell reports: A recent audit by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) revealed that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FD) computer network is vulnerable to a potential data breach. The news is especially critical as almost exactly one year ago it was discovered that the FDA’s online submission system was breached by an…
Private Investigator And Former NYPD Officer Arrested In Bribery Scheme To Obtain Reports From Federal Law Enforcement Database
Press release issued today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the New York City…
Leader of Team Digi7al sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Oklahoma: Daniel Trenton Krueger, one of two leaders of the computer hacking group known as Team Digi7al, was sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison for hacking the U.S. Navy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and over 50 public and private computer systems, U.S. Attorney Danny C….