There’s a follow-up to a breach covered previously on this site involving a data leak from the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to pay 90 million yen (around $860,000) in damages to 17 Muslims for the breach of privacy lawsuit they filed against the city. Around 114 documents were leaked…
Category: Government Sector
SC Department of Employment & Workforce notifying employees after former employee downloaded their info onto a flash drive
Seanna Adcox of Associated Press reports yet another breach in South Carolina, this one involving the state’s employment and workforce agency: South Carolina’s unemployment agency began notifying more than 4,600 people Wednesday that a former employee may have compromised their personal information. The employee who downloaded the data to a personal flash drive was fired…
NC: Ex-Alamance County employee pleads guilty in identity theft case
Michael D. Abernathy reports: A former Alamance County Department of Social Services employee pleaded guilty in federal court this week to using personal information of child abuse victims in a tax fraud scheme. Rakecia Matrese Brame was indicted Oct. 28 on 33 total counts of identity theft, and wire fraud, aiding in tax fraud, according…
Australian police investigating teen who found database flaw
Jeremy Kirk reports: An Australian teenager who notified a public transport agency of a serious database flaw is under police investigation. Joshua Rogers, 16, of Melbourne, found a SQL injection flaw in a database owned by Public Transport Victoria (PTV), which runs the state’s transport system. The flaw allowed access to a database containing 600,000…
ZA: Hacker reveals e-toll website security flaw
Jan Vermeulen reports that a hacker has reported a vulnerability in the SANRAL website that exposes user information: This is due to a page on the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) website which can be exploited to expose the PIN of any registered e-toll website user. The page is intended to be used…
Acting Medicaid Director Releases Information on the Incorrect Mailing of Medicaid Cards
Raleigh, N.C. – Today, Department of Health and Human Services Acting Medicaid Director Sandra Terrell released the following information regarding the incorrect mailing of 48,752 Medicaid cards to the wrong addresses: After a review of the incident, it has been determined that some Medicaid cards were incorrectly sent because of human error in computer programming and…