Raymond Brown reports: Police officers and snooping staff at the Cambridgeshire force have broken data rules to spy on former lovers, friends, family, neighbours – and even high-profile names. Four staff employed by the constabulary have been sacked for breaches of the Data Protection Act since and 37 disciplinary measures in total have been instigated….
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CFNC reports accidental disclosure of personal information by third party
WBTV reports: The College Foundation of North Carolina notified participants of the NC 529 Plan that some personal information was accidentally disclosed by a third-party vendor. The foundation, CFNC, sent an email out to participants on Wednesday morning that a third-party vendor’s staging server inadvertently allowed public access to this limited information. A list of…
Kent Police fined £100,000 after interview tapes abandoned at former station
The Information Commissioner’s Office has served a monetary penalty of £100,000 on Kent Police after confidential information, including copies of police interview tapes, was left in the basement of a former police station. The highly sensitive information included records relating back to the 1980s, thought to have been left at the site when the building was vacated…
IRS employee exposed 20k workers’ SSN on unsecured home network
The folks that we hope will look out for us so we don’t become victims of identity theft for tax refund fraud seem to be having problems with their own data. Stephen Ohlemacher of Associated Press reports: The Internal Revenue Service is reporting a potential security breach involving personal information about 20,000 IRS workers, former…
Men from Ukraine and New York indicted in U.S. cybercrime case
Jonathan Stempel reports: Federal prosecutors on Monday announced the indictment of three men they accuse of being members of an international cybercrime ring that tried to steal at least $15 million by hacking into U.S. customer accounts at 14 financial institutions and the Department of Defense’s payroll service. Oleksiy Sharapka, 33, and Leonid Yanovitsky, 39,…
NY: Email gaffe at Syracuse City Hall affects retired police officers
Jim Kenyon reports: The President of the Retired Police Officers Association says it came as quite a scare to 300 retired Syracuse police officers when they received this letter from Syracuse City Hall on Friday. […] The letter told the retired cops that there was a data breach within the Personnel Department. The retired officers and their dependents (sic) personal information including names, addresses and social security numbers had been compromised. […] According…