California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), which is under the Department of Environmental Protection, is notifying employees of a recent breach involving Social Security numbers. The text of the letter to employees, which has been uploaded to the California Attorney General’s public breach list, explains: On January 23, 2014, the Human Resources Office…
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UK: Stradishall hacker Lauri Love re-bailed over the charge of hacking US Army and NASA computer systems
More on the Lauri Love case. Debra Fox reports: A baptist minister’s son charged with hacking into American computer systems has been re-bailed until May. Lauri Love, of Stradishall, was arrested in October last year under the Computer Misuse Act on suspicion of hacking into systems including those of the US Army and NASA. He…
AU: Asylum seekers’ identities revealed in Immigration Department data lapse
Oliver Laughland, Paul Farrell and Asher Wolf report: The personal details of a third of all asylum seekers held in Australia – almost 10,000 adults and children – have been inadvertently released by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in one of the most serious privacy breaches in Australia’s history. A vast database containing…
Ex-employee of Birmingham Social Security office pleads guilty to stealing from beneficiaries
Kelsey Stein reports a follow-up to an insider breach for tax refund fraud involving the Alabama Social Security Department: A former employee of the Social Security Administration office in Birmingham at a hearing Tuesday pleaded guilty to stealing information and benefits. Tabaris Archie Brown, 35, of Montgomery, entered a guilty plea at a hearing Tuesday morning…
Global hackers hit Venezuelan government, servers ‘falling like dominoes’
Jeb Boone reports: Hackers around the world are setting their sights on Venezuela’s government web properties following violent repression against anti-government protesters and instances of internet censorship. Already, hacker groups have defaced, deleted and waged DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on Venezuelan government and military sites. Spearheaded by South American Anons, as the hackers…
Arizona pension system admits data was taken last year by former high-ranking employee
Craig Harris reports: The statewide trust that manages pensions for police officers, firefighters, politicians and corrections officers notified its members and their employers this week of a potential security breach even though trust managers have known about the issue since last fall. Christa Severns, a spokeswoman for the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System, said Friday…