Ah, the reports of printing and mailing errors on tax forms are starting a bit early this year. Rob Polansky reports: The Connecticut Department of Labor said Friday that tax forms mailed to 27,000 individuals contained information related to other taxpayers. The department admitted the printing error on the 1099-G forms for people who collected…
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MN: Former state employee convicted of identity theft
Emily Gurnon has an update on the case of a former Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry employee charged with stealing employees’ information: Roxanne K. DeFlorin, a former state staffer who had the personal information of hundreds of public employees at her home, was convicted Wednesday of identity theft by a Ramsey County jury. Representing…
Update on the VA’s eBenefits website breach
The VA responded to my email inquiries about the recently disclosed breach involving the eBenefits web site with the following statement: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) takes seriously our obligation to properly safeguard personal information. During a limited period of time Wednesday evening, as part of a process to improve software supporting the joint…
Some police officers breached data protection
New figures reveal five Jersey police officers have left the force in the past four years after snooping at islanders’ personal data. Three were dismissed and two resigned. Meanwhile in another case, one was reprimanded but kept their job, and another incident dating back two years still hasn’t been resolved. It’s led Deputy Mike Higgins…
‘Defect’ on VA benefits site shares vets’ personal details online
Barnini Chakraborty has an update on the Veterans Administration e-benefits website breach reported here recently: The VA issued a statement Friday afternoon acknowledging the “software defect.” “VA took immediate action upon discovering the software defect and shut the eBenefits system down in order to limit any problems,” the agency said. It also said that the…
Insecure healthcare.gov allowed hacker to access 70,000 records in 4 minutes
Darlene Storm reports: When it comes to the atrocious state of HealthCare.gov security, white hat hacker David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, may feel like he’s beating his head against a stone wall. Kennedy said, “I don’t understand how we’re still discussing whether the website is insecure or not. It is; there’s no question about that.” He added,…