Christina Commisso reports: A 19-year-old man from London, Ont., has been charged in connection with using the Heartbleed bug to exploit taxpayer data from the Canada Revenue Agency website. The RCMP announced Wednesday that Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes was arrested at his home Tuesday without incident. He has since been released and is staying with his…
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MN: Militia commander with Fort Bragg ties admits to ID theft
fayobserver.com reports that Keith Michael Novak has pleaded guilty to identity theft in a scheme that involved stealing the identity information from members of his former Army unit at Fort Bragg. He reportedly planned to use their identity information to make fake IDs for members of his militia, the 44th Spatha Libertas. Novak was an…
MN: Two years’ probation for former DNR employee in data breach
This really unacceptable, and for the prosecutor to suggest that the sentence was fair because there was no public safety risk totally minimizes the importance of citizens feeling a measure of confidence that state employees are not snooping in their files. Chao Xiong reports: A former state employee who pleaded guilty to breaching thousands of…
900 social insurance numbers taken in Canada Revenue Agency security breach involving Heartbleed
Meghan Hurley reports: The social insurance numbers of 900 Canadians were swiped from the Canada Revenue Agency website after its Internet software was compromised by the so-called Heartbleed computer bug. Andrew Treusch, the commissioner of the Canada Revenue Agency, said in a statement the CRA has worked around the clock to implement a “patch” for…
AU: ACCC admits to personal data breach
Hannah Francis reports: The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has apologised for a privacy breach after it left an unknown quantity of personal email addresses accessible online. The ACCC said the addresses of subscribers to its information alert services for the Recalls Australia, Product Safety Australia, SCAMwatch and ACCC Public Registers websites were “inadvertently made…
State apologizes after exposing crime victims’ personal info online
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety is apologizing after a breach exposed crime victims’ information online. Kelly Hinchcliffe and Laura Leslie of WRAL report that the news station discovered the breach: The breach happened sometime in late 2012 after the department created a new website and moved it to a state server, according Department…